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Breast cancer patients: Don't rush, consider all your options

Less than an hour before her mastectomy was scheduled to begin, Eve Wallinga's surgeon gave her the bad news: Because of unforeseen complications, doctors wouldn't be able to reconstruct a new breast for her immediately after removing her cancerous breast as planned. She was told she'd have to wait another day for the plastic surgery.

Breast cancer patients advised to consider options

Less than an hour before her mastectomy was scheduled to begin, Eve Wallinga's surgeon gave her the bad news: Because of unforeseen complications, doctors wouldn't be able to reconstruct a new breast for her immediately after removing her cancerous breast as planned. She was told she'd have to wait another day for the plastic surgery.

How we're winning the war on breast cancer

I was 18 when I first felt a lump in my breast. Of course, I was convinced that I was going to die. This was three decades ago -- back when we knew far less about breast cancer. A general surgeon removed the lump, which, thank goodness, wasn't malignant.

Living in the now: Cancer survivor finds her purpose in life

Who knew that fighting breast cancer for the third time in seven years would reveal my purpose in life.

People.com: Jennifer Esposito Finds Christina Applegate a 'Huge Inspiration'

"She never stopped once to say, feel sorry for me," says her Samantha Who? costar

A head-to-toe look at breast cancer's real effects

Let's face it: Your mom, your sister-in-law, your co-worker, your best friend from college -- someone you know has had breast cancer. Someone you care about has sat white-faced, clutching the kitchen phone, or in a doctor's office, and gotten the scary news that every woman dreads -- news that one out of eight of us will hear in our lifetime, 250,000 of us this year alone.

Christina Applegate: Why I had a double mastectomy

For more than 20 years, actress Christina Applegate has kept audiences laughing.

People.com: Applegate 'Lost It' When She Met Her Surgeon

The actress tells Oprah about her delayed reaction to her cancer diagnosis and treatment decision

People.com: Christina Applegate Cancer-Free After Double Mastectomy

"I just wanted to kind of be rid of this whole thing for me," says the actress

Fighting the cancer a mammogram can't catch

It was a long night, and Susan Niebur was feeling low. Normally, this working mom in Silver Spring, Maryland, can keep a shocking number of balls in the air and still smile. She's a physicist who works part-time as a consultant to NASA; an at-home mom to Matt, 1, and Andrew, 3; an animal-rescue volunteer; and a daily blogger. But Niebur, 35, is also a full-time cancer patient, and one night last fall her characteristic attitude of resolve and optimism failed her. After nearly six months of chemotherapy, the treatment's side effects -- which are cumulative -- were brutal.

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