Tuesday
A SERIOUS CHOICE TO AVOID CANCER
18% of women that test positive for the gene that causes breast and ovarian cancer, opt to beat the disease before it can manifest, by having double mastectomies and the ovaries removed.
These women usually have family histories of these horrible cancers and may have even lost mothers and sisters this way. Watching a close relative suffer and die from these cancers is certainly a factor in the decision to have these surgeries.
The breasts can be reconstructed with additional operations and many of the women have waited until they have had their children before having the other organs removed.
It's a very heart breaking choice but these women are choosing life over an almost certain diagnosis of cancer.
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