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To: Slings and Arrows

Well, sort of, and not really. She's having preventive surgery at 22 for a cancer she doesn't have and may never have. She has a 10% chance of never getting it. Sounds a tad extreme to me. Seems she could hold off until at least the kids are born and nursed.


42 posted on 07/01/2004 7:11:45 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: plain talk

10% means one chance in ten of NOT getting it, and as other posters have pointed out, breast cancer is very aggressive - it nearly killed my mother at 30. Assuming that the test is reliable (always a big if, granted), I think her decision is rational, if heartbreaking.


46 posted on 07/01/2004 7:15:06 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Am Yisrael Chai!)
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To: plain talk

Why should she play Russian Roulette with 9 full chambers and 1 empty? Perhaps declining to play the game is really better.


85 posted on 07/01/2004 8:33:29 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: plain talk
She has a 10% chance of never getting it. Sounds a tad extreme to me.

She had something very unimportant removed that had a 90% chance of threatening her life.

170 posted on 07/02/2004 7:20:32 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (~*-,._.,-*~Loves her hubbit~*-,._.,-*~)
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