Why Doctors are ReThinking Breast-Cancer Treatment

Too much chemo. Too much radiation. And way too many mastectomies

Too much chemo, too much radiation, and too many mastectomies. Why doctors are rethinking breast cancer treatment
Too much chemo, too much radiation, and too many mastectomies… why doctors are rethinking breast cancer treatment. Image via @TIMEHealth

What if I decide to just do nothing?

“It was kind of a taunt, Desiree Basila admits. Not the sort of thing that usually comes out of the mouth of a woman who’s just been diagnosed with breast cancer. For 20 minutes she’d been grilling her breast surgeon. “Just one more question,” she kept saying, and her surgeon appeared to her to be growing weary. She was trying to figure out what to do about her ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), also known as Stage 0 breast cancer, and she was already on her second opinion. The first surgeon had slapped a photograph of her right breast onto a viewer, pointed to a spot about 5 cm long and 2.5 cm wide and told her there was a slot open the following week for a mastectomy. “…

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time, Oct. 1, 2015.
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