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MASECTOMY SURGERY

If you have had one or more breasts removed due to cancer it is possible you may have only needed a lumpectomy or just lump(s) removed without having such a radical procedure performed like having your whole breast removed!

It seems that about the same amount of people, especially women, have had their cancer seemingly cured by going for the simpler, much less radical lumpectomy surgery combined with chemotherapy compared to the survival success rate of going through a radical masectomy!

The best advice may possibly be that when your doctor recommends major surgery of any kind consider going for a second, third and maybe even a fourth medical opinion just to make sure you have exhausted all you options and possibilities.

SUPPLEMENTAL SOURCE: WFOR-TV NEWS 9/3/96

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