Tig Notaro

Before I had a double mastectomy, I was already pretty flat-chested, and I made so many jokes over the years about how small my chest was that I started to think that maybe my boobs overheard me... and were just like, 'You know what? We're sick of this. Let's kill her.

American Comedian

Edward Brooke

I had male breast cancer and had dual radical modified mastectomy, and I've spent a lot of time working with the Susan G. Komen foundation to make men aware of male breast cancer - if you have breast tissue, you can have breast cancer.

American Politician

Hoda Kotb

One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of people blocking the road. I thought, 'Oh, great, now I'm stuck!' but then I suddenly realized that it was a breast cancer walk.

American Journalist

Sam Taylor-Johnson

When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.

English Director

Angelina Jolie

I made a decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. I started with the breasts, as my risk of breast cancer is higher than my risk of ovarian cancer, and the surgery is more complex.

American Actress

Giuliana Rancic

One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think?

Jennifer Grey

The cancer I had is not at all equal to other people's cancer. I've never had to have chemotherapy; I haven't had to have a mastectomy.

Amy Robach

I made the choice to have the double mastectomy, and for me it felt like the right choice, and it turned out to be the right choice.

Betty Ford

I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.

American First Lady

Carly Simon

I had a mastectomy in 1998, and then chemo.

American Musician

Used in medical contexts discussing treatments for diseases like breast cancer.

Medical Term

Talk about mastectomy with sensitivity, as it can be emotional for someone who has undergone the surgery.

Sensitive Topic

Know the different types, like 'partial' or 'double' mastectomy, used for various treatment approaches.

Types of Mastectomy

 There are many reasons as to why someone would go through breast surgery. But tonight, we're going to focus on breast cancer. When somebody loses their breast to cancer, they have a mastectomy, and they choose to have a breast reconstruction. The majority of time, the nipples don't make it.

The Restorative Power of...

 She had gotten a mastectomy a year before and did not follow up, and I spent five days with her until she died. And this is her daughter seeing her mother in the casket. She didn't even know her mother had passed away. She just got a call and was pulled out of boarding school

Photographing the...

 undergone a mastectomy after the surgery she chose not to have chemotherapy or radiation her doctors thought she would be fine but throughout her pregnancy she had premonitions pains that her midwife explained away in her sketchbook