Mastectomy
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Why women facing tough choices around breast cancer and mastectomy often feel judged
Playing a major role here, say many, is the one that breasts play in our society — and why, of all the known cancers, those affecting the breast are in a category of their own.
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What it's like to have a single, not double, mastectomy: 'I couldn't bring myself to amputate a perfectly healthy part of me'
One woman says she stuck with having a unilateral mastectomy because a double was not medically necessary, and because none of the reasons for removing her other breast resonated with her.
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Country singer Morgan Wade is getting a double mastectomy after learning she has BRCA gene mutation
The "Psychopath" singer said that her mother also underwent a mastectomy.
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She calls herself the 'boobless babe.' Why, post-mastectomy, she's feeling the 'hottest' she's ever felt.
Social media is a vital part of what Stephanie Germino sees as her mission to spread a message: that "being flat is valid. And it is a choice."
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Why this photographer keeps turning her lens on post-mastectomy breast cancer survivors and thrivers
Through the women she photographs, Charise Isis hopes to add context, through an empathic and realistic lens, to misinformed ideas people may have about mastectomies.
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Kelly Crump shares initial reaction to seeing her mastectomy scar in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit: 'The first thing I said was f***'
The guest model told the magazine that she was unhappy with her body before her breast cancer diagnosis, but that she gained perspective after getting sick.
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Activist who went flat post-mastectomy poses in SKIMS bra campaign: 'There is power and liberation in owning who we are'
"When it came to sharing images and words around my reclaimed self, i have wanted to scream or project it from the rooftops," Samantha Paige wrote on Instagram. "Shame corrodes us."
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