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Originally Posted by _Richard_
yea, but, ovarian cancer is really hard to detect, and word on the street is that's what her mother died from
so she still has a 50% risk of something far more difficult to test
why not get ovaries removed rather than breasts?
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How do we know she hasn't? We don't, it is a much more common procedure and nobody on a red carpet was going to say 'her ovaries look smaller, did she have work?'
My sister had one ovary removed at 3 months old - yes, 3 months old - because there was something wrong with it that nearly killed her. She spent the next 28 years of her life wondering if the other one would ever work enough to allow her to have a child and/or when the other one would have the same issue. That's 28 years of not just her but the entire family worrying if every time she had a doctor's visit if this would be the time they told her she was sick again.
With fertility assistance she managed to have two sons within the past three years. Almost as soon as the second was born it indeed did come back and she had to have the second removed and hysterectomy. For any woman that is hard let alone for a 31 year old.
Meanwhile, growing up I got checked a few times because of her but after a while nobody was looking at me. Turns out, my ovaries are also messed up. For me, it is PCOS but it isn't uncommon for cancer to also happen for PCOS women -both ovarian and uterus - and I am aware that I could be told at any time that I have it. If they checked me and told me I had an 87 percent chance of getting it? I would have to give up the last little hope I have of having kids of my own and get them taken out.