Christina's brave decision; Your Life daily.ACTRESS Christina Applegate (above), star of the hit 90s US TV sitcom, Married With Children and the movie Anchorman, made the agonising decision to have a double mastectomy in August this year after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Christina's mother, Nancy, also battled the disease and survived. Last year doctors advised her to start having MRI 1. (application) MRI - Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 2. MRI - Measurement Requirements and Interface. scans and it was following a scan in April that a mass was found in her left breast. She had a lumpectomy Lumpectomy Definition A lumpectomy is a type of surgery used to treat breast cancer. It is considered "breast-conserving" surgery because in a lumpectomy, only the malignant tumor and a surrounding margin of normal breast tissue are and radiotherapy to get rid of the tumour and then genetic testing revealed she had the BRAC Brač (bräch), Ital. Brazza, island (1991 pop. 13,824), 152 sq mi (394 sq km), off the Dalmatian coast in the Adriatic Sea, Croatia. It is a popular summer resort and tourist spot. Supetar (Ital. 1 gene. It was then she decided on further radical surgery. She said: "After looking at all the treatment plans that were possibilities for me, the only one that seemed the most logical and the one that was going to work for me was to have a bilateral mastectomy. "I didn't want to go back to the doctors every four months for testing. I just wanted to be rid of this whole thing for me." |
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