When Brande Plotnick got the diagnosis in 2021, she wasn't worried about dying. 'I was afraid of living sick,' she recalls. 'My life was going finally the way I wanted it to go. I have a great career and colleagues and friends that I love.'
"I was afraid of living sick," Brande Plotnick recalls. "My life was going finally the way I wanted it to go."For Brande Plotnick of Montgomery County, Pa., fitness has been a big part of her life before and after cancer.Hundreds of people will gather at Cooper River Park in Camden County on Sunday for the American Cancer Society's Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk.
For Brande Plotnick of Montgomery County, fitness has been a big part of her life before and after cancer."I was afraid of living sick," she recalls. "My life was going finally the way I wanted it to go. I have a great career and colleagues and friends that I love."So, despite having Stage 0 DCIS cancer, Brande decided against a lumpectomy, radiation, and hormone treatment in favor of a double mastectomy, in part because of breast cancer in her family.
Because her maternal grandmother had breast cancer, Brande had been getting regular MRI exams in between her annual mammogram. "It was like a light bulb went on for me," she says. However, Brande is disappointed she didn't find out about "living flat" until she stumbled across it online.For her, reconstruction had too many cons, such as multiple operations, a lack of sensation in the reconstructed breasts, potential health risks from implants, and the need to replace implants every 10 years.
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