预防性切除者：三位年轻女性的选择

When women become aware that they have a high risk of developing breast cancer, they can choose to have a prophylactic (preventive) mastectomy to remove their breast tissue. The "previvors" who opt for this risk-reducing surgery confront tremendous mental and physical challenges. But most of these women, even at young ages, don't regret their choices. In fact, for these three previvors under 40, it didn't feel like a hard choice at all. By Lauren Larson Gabrielle Hansen, 29 Two years ago, Hansen, a pharmacist, learned that she carried the BRCA2 gene mutation. This past winter, she received a direct-to-implant double mastectomy (in which breast reconstruction occurs in the same surgery as the mastectomy) and chose to preserve her nipples. …