Hi 

I have just been diagnosed with cancer in the right breast, I have had a biopsy and 'micro bubbles' on my lymph nodes.  It appears that the cancer is non aggressive and they are 93% sure that it hasnt spread to the lymph nodes.  I wasnt suprised to get the diagnosis, the women in my maternal heritage have all mostly had breast cancer.  I am waiting now for the genetic screening, but have been told that there there is only a 90% chance that they will find the genetic mutation (for cancer).  Now, my surgeon is talking lumpectomy, but my brain is saying masectomy.  I wondered if anyone else felt like this?  The 'narrative' in my family is that my nan, my aunts, wouldnt have died so early and had such a rough time in ther lives (with the cancer keeping on reoccurring) if they had the option of a masactomies.  I am wondering, if anyone lese is having these thoughts / or experiences.  I cannot explain it, but I instinctively feel as though I want a double masectomy.  Can I ask for one?  Am I being extreme? Also, one thing my sister asked me "is it possible to 'drive a cancer' to another area" if I have a masectomy?