Posted on 01/11/2013 4:35:40 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Win or lose Saturday, Miss America contestant Allyn Rose will have conveyed a message about breast cancer prevention using her primary tool as a beauty queen: her body.
The 24-year-old Miss DC plans to undergo a double mastectomy after she struts in a bikini and flaunts her roller skating talent. She is removing both breasts as a preventive measure to reduce her chances of developing the disease that killed her mother, grandmother and great aunt.
"My mom would have given up every part of her body to be here for me, to watch me in the pageant," she said between dress rehearsals and preliminary competitions at Planet Hollywood on the Las Vegas Strip Wednesday. "If there's something that I can do to be proactive, it might hurt my body, it might hurt my physical beauty, but I'm going to be alive."
If crowned, the University of Maryland, College Park politics major could become the first Miss America not endowed with the Barbie silhouette associated with beauty queens.
Rose said it was her father who first broached the subject, during her freshman year of college, two years after the death of her mother
"I said, 'Dad I'm not going to do that. I like the body I have.' He got serious and said, 'Well then you're going to end up dead like your mom.' "
She has pondered that conversation for the past three years, during which she has worked as a model and won several pageants, including Miss Maryland USA, Miss Sinergy and the Miss District of Columbia competition, which put her in the running for Saturday's bonanza.
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She should reconsider. At least till she's 30 and gravity takes over.
>>She is removing both breasts as a preventive measure to reduce her chances of developing the disease that killed her mother, grandmother and great aunt.<<
I have never heard of prophylactic mastectomies before this. Does anyone know if it usually done?
My BS meter is off the chart. No one would do this with no symptoms.
Me thinks the babe is trying to win on the sympathy vote.
Seems to me that reconstruction would be 99% if she has it done now... They could preserve the nipples and the skin and remove all the mammary tissue.
So then she has taken all the tests to identify markers for breast cancer - right?
I personally think this is beyond stupid.
There are so many tests a woman can do for early diagnosis - sonograms, blood.....
But it is keeping her name in the papers.
It’s done all the time . My docs were all on board , especially with rationing coming down the pike .
“I have never heard of prophylactic mastectomies before this. Does anyone know if it usually done?”
Yes...
My sil had cancer in one and had both removed. I thnk her idea was symmetry She has adjusted very well fours after the fact
That is a good question. I do know women with cancer in one breast who elect to have BOTH breasts removed. Just in case.
To be done with it.
a local MD had this done to herself several years ago.
Breast Cancer was among her family females
a local MD had this done to herself several years ago.
Breast Cancer was rampant among her family females
I can offer her therapeutic massage breast reduction for dimes on the dollar if that will help...
Sounds quite reasonable to get'em out of there and replace the content with a better track record.
The same gene(s) can be related to the misnamed ovarian cancer (actually happens in the supportive tissue, not the ovaries) ~ and I'd bet she has been tested in that regard as well.
The first time I heard of this was a friend of my niece. She plans to have it done after having children. I was stunned, but apparently it is not uncommon.
They take the nipples . They can become cancer bearers . They reconstruct new ones . Lots of women get tats .
I’m a man in my sixties... 5 years ago I had a lump in my breast. They said probably OK, we’ll watch it. 3 years later it was bigger and they said we’ll watch it.
I said, kiss my a$$. cut the damn thing out. Which they did...
I don’t think they need to take the nipples. I’m not a Dr. but the chance of a future problem with the nipple spreading to the chest wall through 2 pounds of silicon is zero.
There’s a test (BRAC1 AND BRAC2) to test for a genetic link to breast and ovarian cancer. Maybe she’s had the test and it showed she’s genetically prone to those.
I am a bit ignorant on the subject....is it commonly done with women in their early 20’s, or is it more often women, with genetic likelyhood, getting it done as they turn 50?
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