{"id":8019,"date":"2017-08-30T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8019"},"modified":"2017-08-29T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T14:46:14","slug":"why-a-growing-number-of-women-with-breast-cancer-are-choosing-double-mastectomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=8019","title":{"rendered":"Why a growing number of women with breast cancer are choosing double mastectomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Catherine Caruso for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><span class=\"big-cap\">T<\/span>hree years ago, Crystal Collum was 37 years old with three kids at home, \u201ckind of just trucking through life\u201d in Columbia, S.C., when she felt a lump on her breast while showering. She didn\u2019t hesitate \u2014 she\u2019d watched her best friend go through breast cancer years earlier, and she knew what to do. Within three weeks she was starting chemotherapy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2017\/08\/29\/double-mastectomy-breast-cancer\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_b7gHeQZcEmizhpdzou8xvyncRJ-R3ba0iUR3V6p0HpEYb4OE0Pjq-vLkFAEzinttcz4emgzfxsZtVeTde0tLeal_Khg&amp;_hsmi=55745641\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"big-cap-wrap danger-zone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4372\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo-300x32.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/STAT-Logo.png 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Catherine Caruso for STAT) Three years ago, Crystal Collum was 37 years old with three kids at home, \u201ckind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8020,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions\/8020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}