I was not willing to die for my breasts': the young women opting for
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After tests show they have a high chance of developing cancer, more and more women are choosing drastic surgery in the hope of saving their lives
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Breast cancer - Wikipedia
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Want larger breasts without implants? Consider fat transfer breast augmentation. - ABCS
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Excerpt: Frida Kahlo, the surrealist Mexican artist
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Why Are Women Choosing to Remove Healthy Breasts? Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center - Buffalo, NY
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Groupies and Other Girls: 1969 Cover Story
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A very lucrative liquid: the emerging trade in human milk as a form of reproductive exploitation and violence against women
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Shannen Doherty Keeps Working Despite Having Stage 4 Cancer
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I'm Too Young to Have Breast Cancer!: Regain Control of Your Life, Career, Family, Sexuality, and Faith: Leibson-Hawkins, Beth: 9780895260550: : Books
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More young women are getting breast cancer. They want answers. - The Washington Post