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posted September 17, 2007 09:02 PM         

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I just watched this Story about Preventative Surgery.
This healthy 33-year old Deborah Lindner chooses to have a double mastectomy, Upon learning her high risk for developing cancer.
Please Watch By Clicking Here

I'm wondering what the opinions of others here are on this?
Yes, this subject does seem highly controversal.
I myself, don't believe that I could consider this an option.
I am intrigued by this story most especially because I am a Cancer survivor.

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posted September 17, 2007 10:05 PM         

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Yes I would! I am waiting to see if our insurance covers the gene testing.
With H/I size I need too many x-rays for a mammography and too hard to properly examine.
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posted September 19, 2007 03:46 AM         

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yikes!!!
i'm not a female. if i were -id not choose to mutilate my body on the notion that i may aquire an illness of this sort or that.
that's just INSANE!!!

friendinspirit, my mother is also cancer healed. she used the power of prayer, meditation, and faith that it did not exist.
she has been back to the hospital/doctors now, four times each admit there is no longer cancerous cells. from what i read on your other thread you have the same story.
hands down, i'm intrigued by you!
my mother would like you too, lol!

-kyle

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posted September 19, 2007 10:31 PM         

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Oh, watching the video made my eyes tear up. What an amazing story.

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posted September 20, 2007 07:50 AM         

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yikes!!!
i'm not a female. if i were -id not choose to mutilate my body on the notion that i may aquire an illness of this sort or that.
that's just INSANE!!!

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Thanks for inferring insanity upon folks who make that choice..

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~Assumption Is The Bane Of Understanding~
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posted September 28, 2007 08:39 AM         

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To each their own but I really wouldn't make that decision for myself as a purely preventative one.

I can't judge another person for their decision about something as serious as this though. Personally, I'm much more into using nutrition/exercise/natural therapies/positive thinking and feeling, etc. for prevention and then dealing with any problems once they arise *if* they arise at all.

But it is a very personal decision to make and there are so many similar stories regarding medical procedures being "necessary" or not that I'm a bit nervous about topics like these upsetting people. (Not that you did anything wrong, yfis. Just don't want people to be hurtful/hurt or angry.)

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posted September 28, 2007 02:36 PM         

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I am worried because so many women in my family have had breast cancer. And all with difficult to examine overly large cystic breasts. The standard self exams are worthless when one has literally hundreds of different sized cysts. And the size does not yield well to the standard circular motion self exams. It takes 4 to 5 times the radiation to do a mammography on me. I do not fit on the mammography machine plates.
So yeah, if I find I carry the gene, I would consider it..or my insurance would then at least authorize payment on digital mammographies, and breast ultrasounds and MRIs, allowing more of a chance of finding anything if it happened before it was too late.

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~Judgement Must Be Balanced With Compassion~
~Do Not Seek Wealth From The Suffering, Or The Dire Needs Of Others~
~Assumption Is The Bane Of Understanding~
~ if you keep doing what you did, you'll keep getting what you got.~
Everything changes.
Fear not the changes.
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posted September 28, 2007 03:15 PM         

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I can understand how someone with a family history of breast cancer would undergo a mastectomy. The emotional toil of constantly checking and re-checking for lumps every few weeks can drain the spirit.

No wonder that woman just said "Take them away", lol.

Most women are not like her though.

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