Women are sharing what it's like to go through having a single mastectomy. (Design by Victoria Ellis and Getty Images) When Katerine Gagnon was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020 at the age of ...

'My Mom Battled Breast Cancer Twice, So I Had A Double Mastectomy at 24 And So Did My Sister' Published May 14, 2020 at 7:00 AM EDT Updated May 14, 2020 at 7:06 AM EDT. By Eleanor Howie .

Double mastectomy doesn’t affect survival rates, but unilateral mastectomy patients who get cancer in the other breast have higher risk of death. Skip to Main Content. Mental Health.

Stephanie Germino, 29, made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy and opted against post-surgery reconstruction — but she's proud of her flat chest, despite what cruel trolls say.

The finding that a double mastectomy is not protective against death for many breast cancers seems counterintuitive, Dr. Narod admitted. An accompanying editorial, by Dr. Seema Ahsan Khan, a ...

My other option was to have a preventative double mastectomy. I left my oncologist's office feeling overwhelmed and scared of my future for the first time in my life.