My wife is a Breast Cancer Survivor. The hell she went through during her treatments was amazing. She showed me just how strong she really was...and became a hero to me.

Angelina Jolie, who tested very likely to have breast cancer in her lifetime, has taken steps to make sure that it doesn't happen to her. She lost her mother when her mom was only 56 years of age. Her mom didn't have this choice...the technology wasn't as developed as it is today.

I have respect for her...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/my-medical-choice.html?hp&_r=0

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When my Mom was faced with it in '95, she immediately said "take 'em off." It was quite surprising to me at the time because she is actually a vane person. She took the Chemo at the time and they said she probably had five more years.

Here we are 18 years later and she is going pretty strong for an 89 year old.

I have known a few other ladies who hesitated and paid the price. I think the decision to lose them in favor of health, indicates a balanced person making the decision.

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My wife, who is well endowed, wanted them both gone...but the doctor said removal wasn't needed. They removed the tumor, put her through chemo and radiation, and have been keeping an eye on the situation.
We're now almost 7 years since the surgery.

Luckily, she didn't have the genetic issue that increases the chances of breast and ovarian cancer...even though all women in her blood line on her mother's side have died from one or the other for the last 4 generations. It took her mother 7 years before she passed away...7 years filled with pain and agony. She passed away in 1980, at the age of 40. My wife missed her Junior and Senior years of High School so that she could stay home and care for her mother.

Her daughter, my step daughter, is a different story. She's has had the genetic test and has confirmation, yet refuses to do anything about it...no matter how much we talk with her about it. She's cancer free today, but tomorrow may be different.

It's a personal choice, one not to be taken lightly.

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It is indeed a courageous decision.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

It must take a tole when women have breasts removed as a preventative measure. Breast cancer in males is not unknown and kind of suprised me when I first heard about it as well.

So should we guys be checking our breasts as well as our testicles from time to time? It only takes maybe 10 seconds to check our testicles in the shower but many still do not.

I read an article that science will progress at a rate over the next hundred years that surpasses what has been learnt by man in the last ten thousand. Some forms of science have enabled me to live where if I had the issue fifty years ago. I would have been in the business of pushing up flowers years ago. Impossible to even guess what the next 100 years will bring in science.