[lsee]

Well, I never said I agreed with her decision, I just reported what the woman said about it. It was an interesting program because I'd never heard of having elective breast removal surgery. It seemed very extreme to me. "And then she got hit by a bus"...I'm still chuckling over that line!

[scholar]

It was an interesting program because I'd never heard of having elective breast removal surgery.

I have worked in healthcare for 30+ years and in cancer research programs for 7 years. There is nothing new about breast removal. They were doing it back in the 70's for women who had severe fibrocystic disease which was once thought to be a serious precursor to breast cancer--they have since found that is not true.

I am not prepared to argue with these stats, but the reality is when they remove a woman's breast tissue, there is no guarantee that they have removed all of it which still leaves a potential.

Many people have a genetic pre-disposition to colon cancer as well. As the other posters have been mentioning--how many organs can we have removed to insure that we don't get cancer. Sure thing is--none of us are getting out of here alive!