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Cancer Major 
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My Breast (1994) (TV Film) |
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A New York
journalist rediscovers herself when she is |
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diagnosed
with breast cancer. |
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Though she
has a mammograph every year and says she gets lumps
all the time her Doctor decides
a lump has to come out. She has the operation and the lump
is found to be malignant. But she's angry that her taking
precautions didn't prevent this. And she decides "I'm not
going to die from this." (Charitably one can say the explanation
of her clairvoyance is that the story has been set down retrospectively). |
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The Doc
explains clearly the procedures and choices open to |
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her. She
reads a couple of books and challenges the doc |
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thinking she
knows better. Finally she chooses a masectomy |
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and visits a
plastic surgeon about having the breast |
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recreated.
There is good though brief detail about this |
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Up until
this point she has been seeing a male doctor. Then a |
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woman doctor
says the diagnosis might be wrong. She has |
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another
operation in which no more tumours are found. She |
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does have 12
nodes removed but the cancer has not spread. |
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Radiation
and chemotherapy are to follow but she is then told |
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she doesn't
need the chemo. After six weeks of radiation the |
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As usual
with these TV films there is much that is humdrum |
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and just
filling. There is more about her affluent lifestyle than |
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Notes
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