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• Cancer >> Breast Cancer in women >> Women 30 - 49 >> Tess - Interview 53 >> Tess had a family history of breast cancer. Two years after her first mastectomy, she had a second one and breast reconstruction. She was happy with t

When Tess was diagnosed with breast cancer, aged 33, she also found out she was pregnant. She had a mastectomy, chemotherapy and tamoxifen and Herceptin. She later had a second mastectomy with immediate breast recontsruction, and had her ovaries removed.

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• Cancer >> Breast Cancer in women >> Your ideas about causes of breast cancer >> Your ideas about causes of breast cancer

 

Your ideas about causes of breast cancer

 

• Cancer >> Breast Cancer in women >> Mastectomy >> Mastectomy

 

Mastectomy

 

• Cancer >> Breast Cancer in women >> Women Under 30 >> Interview 15 >> Describes reassuring her mother who felt that she, not her daughter, ought to have developed breast cancer.

Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000. Had a bilateral mastectomy and was given chemotherapy, radiotherapy, drugs for secondary cancer. Died in June 2001.

• Cancer >> Breast Cancer in women >> Women 50 - 69 >> Interview 02 >> Comments on the increased risk of developing breast cancer if other family members have had it.

Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1998. Had a lumpectomy and was given chemotherapy, radiotherapy and Tamoxifen.

• Cancer >> Breast Cancer in women >> Women 50 - 69 >> Interview 11 >> Discusses the possible links between breast cancer and Hormone Replacement Therapy.

Diagnosed with breast cancer 1998, underwent a lumpectomy and was given Tamoxifen.

• Cancer >> Breast Cancer in women >> Women 70 and Over >> Interview 37 >> Comments on diet and the lower incidence of breast cancer in Japan.

Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1973, under went a mastectomy and radiotherapy.

• Cancer >> Breast Cancer in women >> Women 30 - 49 >> Interview 44 >> Describes discovering a lump in her breast while she was pregnant.

Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997. Under went a lumpectomy and was given chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

• Cancer >> Breast Cancer in women >> Women 70 and Over >> Interview 45 >> Explains that she fitted into several risk factor categories.

Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001, had a bilateral mastectomy and was given Tamoxifen.