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Body Rebuilding.(on breast reconstruction and breast cancer)
Byline: Judith Newman
Every year, thousands of women trade in their breasts for new ones--hoping not just to look their best, but also to live their longest.
Stephanie Dziekan looked at her breasts. They were healthy, petite, lovely. Then she looked at her chances. They were 55 to 85 percent. Those were the odds, a genetic counselor told her, that she would end up like her mother and sister before her. Her mother was first diagnosed with breast cancer at 43. She had a lumpectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation, and the cancer went into remission--until it recurred when she was 60. There was another round of treatment, and she is still here at 68. Dziekan's ...
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