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Article: Survivors offer advice on breast cancer ; Awareness increases as more women choose to have double mastectomies.
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- Dayton Daily News
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- August 24, 2008
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DAYTON -- She wishes she could have back the time and erase the
surgeries, stitches and heartache.
Knowing what she knows now, she would have avoided all the extra
ultrasounds, mammograms and post-recovery therapy.
Eight years ago, doctors first told Diane Butler-Hughes that she
only had harmless cysts in her breasts. But they went on to
determine she had a difficult-todetect and large tumor.
Butler-Hughes, a member of The Noble Circle Project, a local
group that helps breast cancer survivors find ways to regain their
health, ended up having a mastectomy on her right breast and
immediate reconstruction.
Before that surgery, she considered having both breasts removed,
exactly what actress ...