You are right. They removed the tumor.
http://www.everydayhealth.com/breast-cancer/suzanne-somers-and-the-future-of-breast-reconstruction.aspx
Somers first began researching alternative cancer therapies in 2001, after doctors found a tumor in one of her breasts. At the time, she declined chemotherapy but had a lumpectomy and 35 days of radiation, which left the right side of her chest deflated and small. Surgeons offered her two reconstructive options: implants (plural, meaning they would have to also remove her healthy breast) or a TRAM flap, a procedure that uses muscle, fat, and skin from the abdomen to create a new breast. Most women seeking post-treatment reconstruction choose one or the other — but Somers is not most women.
“I said, ‘Sew me back up,’” she recalls. “I knew something better would come along.”
I don’t blame her for skipping the chemo, I made the same choice after my cancer surgery. I would skip the guaranteed damage for a 0-2% improvement in 5 year survival.
I always thought her claim that alternative medicine saved her life was disingenuous when she had the tumor removed. I sent my surgeon a thank you card when I hit my one year cancer free anniversary, I’ll do the same when I hit two years and a third when I hit 5 years.