My mother was recently diagnosed with stage 0 breast cancer and will be undergoing surgery today. Please say a prayer for her today. Thank you!!
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Thanks everyone. My mom's surgery was successful and everything is ok.
Wishing you all the best; met her and you 3 years ago at MA's 7 on 7 and you both were fantastic.
Deana, your mother will be in our prayers....My wife also had stage 0 breast cancer that was called Ductal Carcinoma In Situ about 3 years ago, and she was very aggressive about what to do after consulting with family members...She had a gene test and dye enhanced MRI on both breast to determine what would be the best way to proceed...I supported her decision fully to have a bilateral mastectomy, based on what she learned....The alternative was a lumpectomy with radiation to follow..Radiation affects the reconstruction effort because it thins the skin which means skin would have to be borrowed from another part of the body to complete the reconstruction effort, so that was another factor...She did not have to have the radiation because she made the decision to have the mastectomy rather than a lumpectomy , and she had the reconstruction done at the same time as the Mastectomy which was also the right decision...She has had peace of mind about the decision since that time, and so have I....It was her second Cancer scare as she had also been diagnosed with Melanoma a year earlier which she has to get checked every 6 months for the rest of her life....Our belief was that No part of any limb or breast was worth risking your life for, and she had a lot of prayers sent her way by the community and family members, and God answered those prayers, and she has been Cancer free to this point....We both are wishing for your mother to have the same positive result as we had....It's a radical decision I know, but the thought of wondering if there was Cancer somewhere else in the breast was one of the main factors in making the decision because the uncertainty would keep you up at night, and it would always be in the back of your mind, and my wife didn't want to live with that uncertainty?...If your mother would like to discuss this personally with my wife....Shoot me an email, and I will give you her cell phone number, and she can discuss this more in detail....Neither of us have any modesty when it comes to discussing Cancer and if we can share information with anyone that may help them in making a decision we will because we both have lost fathers and relatives to this awful disease.... Again, best wishes from the both of us to your mother!