I have been worried that I might sprain my ankle so I think I will have my legs removed
Stephanie Queller was an unreconstructed glamour girl who worked as a fashion designer and wore Manolo Blahniks and rhinestone-studded tank tops. Cancer, first in her breasts and then in her ovaries, destroyed her body, leaving her unable to eat or care for herself, before killing her at the age of 58. Eleven months later her daughter Jessica, a writer for the TV show “Gossip Girl,” tested positive for the breast cancer gene mutation BRCA1, at the age of 34. Queller learned that she had an 87 percent chance of developing breast cancer and a 44 percent chance of developing ovarian cancer. At the time she was hoping to get married and start a family. Instead she had to decide whether to remove her breasts and ovaries to reduce her odds of developing the disease. In her new memoir, “Pretty Is What Changes,” Queller writes that “deciding whether to go to law school or take one’s chances as a writer is a hard decision … Deciding to cut off your breasts when you don’t have cancer and possibly never will? To me, that was insanity.” Yet she ultimately decided to have a prophylactic double mastectomy, reducing her risk for breast cancer to just 3 percent, and plans to have her ovaries removed before she turns 40. (She’s now 38.) Her sister Danielle also tested positive for BRCA and had a prophylactic mastectomy as well. Queller spoke to NEWSWEEK’s Jennie Yabroff about her choice, her plans for children and her hopes for the future of breast cancer research.
The stastics don’t seem to make sense, an 87% chance of breast cancer makes me think that their would be a lot more people getting breast cancer, if it was really that likely. Plus, if caught early the less radical treatments work well
Any time a person has surgery they are putting themselves at risk for all sorts of problems. In addition randomly removing body parts can have unintended consequences, it sounds like this person may have gotten bad advice. Unfortunately the person advising this women probably got paid well to perform these surgeries, and got a lot of publicity as well. Thanks to the publicity more people will probably elect to have this surgery and before long it will be a standard procedure. While we are removing ovaries why not prevent testicular cancer by removing testicles, it is best to do this in children before the age of two.
Now that I think about this a little bit I am all in favor of this, not only will a population of eunichs be less competition for dating, it will help cut down on over-population. So come on parents, you owe it to your kids get their ovaries and testicles removed immediately.