Treatments and surgeries are a personal choice. Patients should talk with doctors and other patients and survivors to determine what is best for them.
PUBLISHED January 24, 2018
Tamera Anderson-Hanna is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Certified Addiction Professional, Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and became a Registered Yoga Teacher while coping with breast cancer in 2015. She owns Wellness, Therapy, & Yoga in Florida where she provides personal wellness services and coaching and she is a public speaker on wellness-related topics. You can connect with her at www.wellnesstherapyyoga.com.
I’m going on three years since being diagnosed with breast cancer. Being cancer-free, I haven’t learned everything, but I did learn a lot about breast cancer and the choices patients with the disease make.I feel very fortunate to be cancer-free, but most importantly, I feel good about the choices I made about procedures following diagnosis. I educated myself about my choices and met with individuals I felt comfortable with. Treatments and surgeries are a personal choice to be made alongside educated and supportive staff, as well as testing results, which may serve as a guide to options. Such choices are not to be taken lightly.
I hope to share my experience to help others who have difficult choices to consider. I have unfortunately met women who are not educated about their choices and, as a result, are sometimes unhappy following treatments and procedures. So, my biggest tip is to ask around and, if needed, see more than one oncologist and surgeon.
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