Late, gay etc…
However, Angelina Jolie (I think) removed her tits completly due to a family history of breast cancer, and I doubt she went to a gender surgeon.
As has been noted above, she would have been referred to a specialist in cancer surgery, and the removed tissue checked for anything as well, as that would affect her treatment plan.
In cases one already has the cancer, it might end up even breaking through the skin and much less material is salvageable, right?
By the time it’s broken through the skin it’s probably metastatic anyway. It comes down to margins, really. Depending on where the tumour is, its size and the size of the breast overall, the surgeon might have to remove all the breast to be sure of getting it plus a safety margin. That’s if you’re going for breast-conserving surgery. If you’ve already know you have a genetic risk, you might choose differently.
The brca1 /2 carriers have something like a 70% cumulative risk of cancer by age 80. Now by age 80 most of us have something that’ll kill us, but it is still a fairly hefty risk.
I was quoted 80%. I already had it by then, so in one sense it was useless information, but it was nice to know as I was thinking through future options. The key thing is
by 80, not at 80 - it can and does hit you when you are otherwise healthy, active and productive. That’s the problem. I don’t know the risk for other genetic mutations, like HER2 or PIK3CA.
The biggest risk in terms of what’ll kill you is not breast cancer, but ovarian cancer.
Yep. The risk I was quoted was about 30%, but the difficulty of detecting ovarian cancer obviously was a major consideration. Plus the chemo had trashed them functionally. My team initially was much more keen on getting them out than worrying about another round of breast cancer. Compared to a mastectomy, the surgery is a breeze. Some years on, we’re reassessing next steps.
What kind of a retarded, gullible, fearful woman would ever make such a stupid decision as prophylactic breast removal? A stupid one, that's what kind would do it.
Reputable doctors and surgeons won’t recommend prophylactic surgery without a serious reason, such as being a carrier. If you’ve already had breast cancer, or seen your family members suffer and die from it, and you have an 80% chance of suffering their fate, you see things differently. Breasts are fun, pretty and useful, but not crucial for staying alive. It’s also easier to deal with the surgery and have reconstruction before you have cancer, because you don’t have the added complications of radiation or chemo, which affect your ability to heal.
These dumb, brainwashed whores are going out and getting their breasts chopped off "prophylactically." However, they can still get breast cancer anyway?
They’re not being chopped off, but the tissue is removed and the breast reconstructed. No surgeon is going to swear they managed to get absolutely every tiny bit out, because unlike with a tumour there aren’t comfortable margins. Hence the warning.
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