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Take Action: Let Women Know Their Options after a Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Doctors should be required to inform breast cancer patients of all of their options. Sign the petition now!
Goal: 20,000
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Progress: 11,972
Sponsored by: The Breast Cancer Site
A breast cancer diagnosis can present a woman with myriad uncertainties. With all of the distress associated with a diagnosis, a woman deserves to know every option that's available to her.
When breast cancer is diagnosed, there are a few treatment methods available. She can have the lump removed (lumpectomy), or she can opt to have one or both breasts removed (mastectomy). An additional option — that many are unaware of — is to have both breasts reconstructed. If a woman undergoes a mastectomy, but isn't presented with the option to have her breasts reconstructed at the same time, she may have to endure another painful surgical experience.
Women should know exactly what's accessible to them upon diagnosis so they can make informed decisions about their own treatment. Sign the petition supporting H.B. 669, a bill that would require doctors to inform breast cancer patients of all of their options before they undergo surgery.
Dear Representative James White:
I applaud you on your sponsorship of H.B. 669, a bill that would require doctors to inform their breast cancer patients of all options available to them upon diagnosis.
Many women do not know that, in addition to lumpectomies and mastectomies, they also have the option to undergo breast reconstruction. Having the opportunity to opt for reconstruction removes much of the stress and time spent associated with undergoing each procedure separately. In this light, otherwise long and arduous surgeries could potentially be minimized greatly.
A woman with breast cancer should be given every opportunity available to reduce the stresses and hardships associated with a cancer diagnosis, and doctors should be required to help her do so.
I am writing to ask that you push strongly for this bill's passage and encourage your colleagues to support this important legislation.
Sincerely,
Petition Signatures
May 14, 2013
sonia crapps
My adopted mother she died of cancer all over body plus she had diabetes type 2 & MS.
May 14, 2013
Linda Davidson
May 14, 2013
Sharon Reichardt
Everyone should receive all the options of any kind of procedure or care they receive.
May 14, 2013
Karen Harpe
May 14, 2013
Deborah Mandeville
May 14, 2013
Diane Carpenter
May 14, 2013
Sheila Graves
May 13, 2013
Loraine Lindsey
May 13, 2013
Gisele Germain
May 13, 2013
Mauricio Carvajal
May 13, 2013
Anne-Pascale Kestemont
May 12, 2013
Vera Georgiou
May 12, 2013
Carol Neely
Every women needs answers!!
May 12, 2013
David Humphreys
May 12, 2013
Judith Kemmerle
May 12, 2013
Jennifer Kelly
May 12, 2013
cathy padgettWe are all ready
We are all ready for the cure!!!
May 12, 2013
Guy Perkins
May 12, 2013
Shirley Morgan
May 12, 2013
Megan We
May 12, 2013
toni lubka
May 12, 2013
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May 12, 2013
Cynthia Fiore
May 12, 2013
April Bittick
May 11, 2013
Tanya Kasim
May 11, 2013
June Bowden
May 10, 2013
Christopher Walker
May 10, 2013
Daniel Woods
May 10, 2013
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Yes women have the right to know all the options. Thank You
May 10, 2013
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May 10, 2013
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May 10, 2013
SYLVIE MERCIER
May 10, 2013
Dawn Sullivan
May 9, 2013
Barbara Cote
May 9, 2013
Kassie Boykin
Thank you Rep. White for standing behind but in the fore-front of this important initiative.
May 8, 2013
Mrs.Sunil G.M.
May 8, 2013
Liam perry
May 8, 2013
Elizabeth Melton
May 8, 2013
Katia Alves
May 8, 2013
Sara Keesling
May 8, 2013
Tara Verbridge
May 8, 2013
Connie Corrick
May 8, 2013
Leisha McPherson
May 8, 2013
Keith Turner
May 8, 2013
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May 8, 2013
Carla Rastallis
May 8, 2013
Donzella Godbolt
May 8, 2013
Olimpia Baraini
May 8, 2013
Tolga Suslu
May 8, 2013
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