Quotes About Mastectomy

#1. People with a strong physical constitution can tolerate extremes of hot and cold; people of strong mental health can handle anger, grief, joy and the other emotions.

Epictetus

#2. Cancer changes your life," a patient wrote after her mastectomy. "It alters your habits. ... Everything becomes magnified.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#3. I had male breast cancer and had dual radical modified mastectomy, and I've spent a lot of time working with the Susan G. Komen foundation to make men aware of male breast cancer - if you have breast tissue, you can have breast cancer.

Edward Brooke

#4. One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think?'

Giuliana Rancic

#5. [On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.

Betty Rollin

#6. I made the choice to have the double mastectomy, and for me it felt like the right choice, and it turned out to be the right choice.

Amy Robach

#7. The cancer I had is not at all equal to other people's cancer. I've never had to have chemotherapy; I haven't had to have a mastectomy.

Jennifer Grey

#8. For me it was just more important to get the cancer out. With the double mastectomy I now have less than one per cent chance of getting it back, otherwise it was 20, 30 or 40 per cent chance and for me it wasn't worth it.

Giuliana Rancic

#9. I in my own house am an emperor, And will defend what's mine.

Philip Massinger

#10. Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

Carlos Santana

#11. I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.

Audre Lorde

#12. [On her mastectomy:] Pity is delicious. I was crazy about the pity I got. It was the best kind, too. I did not get, nor did I want, the drooling, mewing kind. I preferred something more restrained but deep-felt. Quality pity.

Betty Rollin

#13. Talk is cheap when your words have no value.

Habeeb Akande

#14. Halsted called this procedure the "radical mastectomy," using the word radical in the original Latin sense to mean "root"; he was uprooting cancer from its very source.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#15. One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of people blocking the road. I thought, 'Oh, great, now I'm stuck!' but then I suddenly realized that it was a breast cancer walk.

Hoda Kotb

#16. I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

Carly Simon

#17. Whenever I watch a show and twentysomethings have a lot of 'Star Wars' references, I know it's written by a 40-year-old dude.

Anders Holm

#18. The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender.

Mariah Nelson

#19. I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.

Adam Carolla

#20. When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.

Sam Taylor-Wood

#21. I would like to take the stigma away. 'Mastectomy' the word seemed so scary to me at first. After doing research and seeing the advancements, the surgery has come a long way from 20 years ago. The results can be incredible.

Giuliana Rancic

#22. Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.

Proverb.

Idries Shah

#23. If a relative has suffered Ovarian or Breast Cancer, get the genetic screening. It saves lives.

Lisa Jey Davis

#24. Options other than mastectomy include high risk surveillance and risk reduction. Surveillance is a combination of monthly self breast exam, annual mammography and whole breast screening ultrasound, annual breast MRI, and biannual clinical breast exam.

Kristi Funk

#25. I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

Betty Ford

#26. When they told me I needed a mastectomy, I thought of the thousands of luncheons and dinners I had attended where they slapped a name tag on my left bosom. I always smiled and said, 'Now, what shall we name the other one?' That would no longer be a problem.

Erma Bombeck