Christina Applegate Mastectomy
Christina Applegate is free from cancer, but there is a catch. Christina Applegate wasted little time deciding to undergo a double mastectomy – even though cancer was detected in only one breast. “I wanted to be rid of it,” she told Good Morning America.
“I didn’t want to go back to the doctor every four months for testing and squishing.” Emotionally, however, it has been a roller coaster for her. “Sometimes I cry,” she said, “and sometimes I scream and get really angry.”
Applegate, 36, whose mother, Nancy Priddy, 67, battled breast cancer and a recurrence years later, had begun getting mammograms at age 30 but credited a doctor-ordered MRI with detecting the cancer and saving her life. Diagnosed in April, she underwent two lumpectomies but chose preventive mastectomies after learning she had the breast cancer gene. [source: People]
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