For Cancer Patients, Anguish Grows Over Deferred Surgery As Risk Rises

(By Yuki Noguchi for NPR)

Last June, days after her 40th birthday, Silver felt a lump in her left breast that turned out to be a tumor that had spread to her lung and liver.

For eight months, Silver underwent chemotherapy that reduced the masses to operable size. But last month, her oncologist explained a mastectomy would also require an additional procedure to take skin off her back, known as a “flap” to cover the wound.  Continue reading article here…

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