My mother is a breast cancer survivor. Her cancer was removed via lumpectomy.
My aunt is a breast cancer survivor. Her cancer was removed via a radical double mastectomy.
My grandmother had breast cancer. She did not survive.
Angelina Jolie, fully in love with her man and their children, believing an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure, electively—and in my view, courageously—recently underwent a double mastectomy.
Few of us would admit to looking to celebrities for genuine inspiration. Maybe we all need to be a bit less dismissive.
If you knew you were carrying “the gene,” what would you do?
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