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Lobular breast cancer

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I have been newly diagnosed and have the option for a lumpectomy or a mastectomy my family want me to have the mastectomy what are other peoples views

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    Hi there just saw your post and wanted to leave a comment ,almost 20 years ago my sister had the choice of the 2 options and whilst I was saying to her I would go for a mastectomy she didn't she went for lumpectomy and she's never looked back ,now I'm not sure what type of cancer she had its so long ago but she's been fine since then ...

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    Hi there just saw your post and wanted to leave a comment ,almost 20 years ago my sister had the choice of the 2 options and whilst I was saying to her I would go for a mastectomy she didn't she went for lumpectomy and she's never looked back ,now I'm not sure what type of cancer she had its so long ago but she's been fine since then ...

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