I have been recommended by the surgeon to have a left breast mastectomy as the cancer has returned and I had a lumpectomy and radiotherapy 5 years ago.
I would like to have a double mastectomy so that I won't have to go through this all over again if I get cancer in my right breast in the future.
Has anyone had thus experience? What happened?
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