Surgery for Breast Cancer: Complex Options, Difficult Decisions

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Thank you for this.., do you have any other sources?

online marketing of AL 4:04PM April 26, 2010

ehh. really like this !

Zodiac Watersports of AL 5:40PM March 03, 2010

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adjuct of AL 11:53AM February 22, 2010

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lcgris of AL 11:30AM December 25, 2009

Another reason that women opt for mastectomy is economic. Many women simply cannot afford to come in for radiation, which is almost universally recommended for women who undergo lumpectomy, 5 days a week for approximately 4 weeks.
This affects poorer women and rural women who have to travel long distances to a radiation site disproportionately. Many cannot afford the transportation costs or the babysitting costs. Many working women cannot afford to come late to work or leave early for those 4 weeks without losing pay or risking their jobs.
These women are forced to chose between feeding their families and keeping their breast.

Susan M. Cohen of NY 7:54PM October 30, 2009

I think breast cancer is really upsetting when you hear from your regular doctor that you have it and when you tell your family that is so emotional

Stephanie Edgington of TN 10:32PM October 27, 2009

I'd love to see this addressed. I was diagnosed with a rare breast cancer, Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC), 12 years ago at age 31. Diagnosis was delayed and by the time we figured it out, the cancer had spread to several distant locations, including the other breast. I had a bilateral mastectomy. I asked about reconstruction at surgery, but because treatment was going to be so aggressive and included a bone marrow transplant and twice daily radiation for 6 weeks, reconstruction would have to wait.
I was not insured at the initial diagnosis, but was almost immediately placed on Social Security Disability. (The Social Security Administration classified IBC in the same category as AIDS.) By the time I was healed well-enough to have reconstructive surgery, my Medicaid eligibility was almost over and no plastic surgeons in Florida accepted Medicaid making reconstruction moot. So despite the requirement that insurance companies pay for reconstruction if the mastectomy was covered, Florida Medicaid made reconstruction impossible.
I know I'm not the only one who faces this. Hell there are thousands of us. There is even a charity MyHopeChest.org that deals with this, but their waiting list is thousands of patients long. I am quite certain that is this were a penile reconstruction issue, this would have been covered without question decades ago.

Leighsah Jones of FL 9:08PM October 27, 2009