Well, obviously you're online if you're reading this.... SO you have the ability to research almost any subject and find a pleathura of information.
God forbid you are ever faced with cancer, but if that does happen, please don't hide your head in the sand. Please don't just take what the doctor says as gospel. I'm certainly not saying the doctors will be untruthful with you - but generally they will not give you ALL the information available.
YOU MUST BE YOUR OWN PATIENT ADVOCATE!!!!
Doctors are going to recommend the 'standard' treatment (which may be the best thing available for your type of cancer or whatever disease), but make yourself knowledgeable enough to KNOW. And yes, you can find out.
My surgeon started by giving me the most conservative (lumpectomy) possibility - and that's where they usually start. So many women are so relieved that they don't "have to lose their breasts" that they immediately jump to that one. Rarely will a bilateral mastectomy be recommended if the cancer is only on one side and from my research I understand that a number of surgeons will argue with the patient about having one done.
If my surgeon had argued, I'd have walked out the door and found another one.
I didn't know much at that point, but I knew enough to know it was MY decision and I knew what I wanted.
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