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I would like to take the stigma away. 'Mastectomy' the word seemed so scary to me at first. After doing research and seeing the advancements, the surgery has come a long way from 20 years ago. The results can be incredible. -- Giuliana Rancic
I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo. -- Carly Simon
I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial. -- Betty Ford
For me it was just more important to get the cancer out. With the double mastectomy I now have less than one per cent chance of getting it back, otherwise it was 20, 30 or 40 per cent chance and for me it wasn't worth it. -- Giuliana Rancic
One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of people blocking the road. I thought, 'Oh, great, now I'm stuck!' but then I suddenly realized that it was a breast cancer walk. -- Hoda Kotb
I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use. -- Audre Lorde
[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender. -- Betty Rollin
The cancer I had is not at all equal to other people's cancer. I've never had to have chemotherapy; I haven't had to have a mastectomy. -- Jennifer Grey
I made the choice to have the double mastectomy, and for me it felt like the right choice, and it turned out to be the right choice. -- Amy Robach
One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think? -- Giuliana Rancic
One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think?' -- Giuliana Rancic
Options other than mastectomy include high risk surveillance and risk reduction. Surveillance is a combination of monthly self breast exam, annual mammography and whole breast screening ultrasound, annual breast MRI, and biannual clinical breast exam. -- Kristi Funk
[On her mastectomy:] Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality pity. -- Betty Rollin
I write about nuclear tests in Refuge - "The Clan of One-Breasted Women." With so many of the women in my family being diagnosed with breast cancer, mastectomies led to one-breasted women. I believe it is the result of nuclear fallout. -- Terry Tempest Williams
When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem. -- Erma Bombeck

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