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bilateral mastectomy

My Experience with Bilateral Mastectomy Surgery

A guest post by Brigitte Roth I had my bilateral mastectomy on Thursday, July 3rd at 8:00 AM (delayed from the original June 20th date because some pre-op appointments hadn’t been scheduled as required). A bilateral mastectomy is considered a day surgery. My surgery took place at our local health center. All of the surgical …

The Death of a Friend from Breast Cancer

We like to say in cancerland that it is the shittiest club with the best of members. You do meet some tremendous humans through this experience. However, the hard part in all of this is that it’s cancer after all. And sometimes people die. This was one of these weeks. Today’s blog is about the …

Types of breast cancer

Breast Cancer Types and Sub-Types

Before my diagnosis with breast cancer, the disease was for me — as it is for most people — a single thing. Very quickly after learning I had cancer, I discovered there are many breast cancer types and sub-types, and each has its terminology and acronyms. The complexity of breast cancer has removed the one-size-fits-all …