Apr 09
27
Woman Under Twenty Has a Double Mastectomy
Well, I guess that even young women are not immune to breast cancer, and unfortunately, although breast cancer is much more rare in women under the age of the forty to fifty year range, it can be much more deadly when it occurs in a younger woman because these types are typically much more agressive and hard to treat conventionally. In Britain,a nineteen year old woman, the youngest to undergo such a drastic preventive and treatment surgery for the disease, has undergone a double mastectomy, setting the record for the youngest woman in Britain to have the radical breast cancer surgery.
The interesting part of this is that the nineteen year old didn’t even have breast cancer yet when she made the decision. The key word here though is “yet”. We all know that if breast cancer runs in your family, especially in your mother of aunts on your mother’s side, you are much more likely to get breast cancer at some point in your life, and so preventive measures are wise suchs as diet and exercise and lifestyle.
However, such a radical measure as a double mastectomy is relatively unheard of, especially in such a young woman. She gave the reason that her aunt and two of her cousins have the disease, and that she’d rather just be safe than sorry, and so opted to have both of her breasts removed rather than always be worried about developing the cancer.
The woman also, like so many women today, was genetically tested and found out indeed she did carry the BRCA2 gene that makes it much more likely you will get breast cancer at some point. This will likely be a continuing trend, we are already seeing a lot of older women having the surgery just so they can live with peace of mind if the disease runs in their family, which is understandable, it’s just a shame they have to lose a part of their womanhood to do it.
