Sentence examples for undergoing a mastectomy from inspiring English sources

Undergoing a mastectomy is a harrowing experience.

As it develops, she is nervous about her first sexual encounter since undergoing a mastectomy.

Before undergoing a mastectomy she had never cared for vanity, and told herself that people lost limbs in far worse and uncontrollable circumstances.

It was shortly after winning the Orange prize that Shields was diagnosed with an aggressive strain of breast cancer, subsequently undergoing a mastectomy and several courses of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

It was shortly after this award that Shields was diagnosed with an aggressive strain of breast cancer, subsequently undergoing a mastectomy and several courses of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

Length of stay was longer for those undergoing a mastectomy, hip replacement or knee replacement.

She underwent a mastectomy in June 1991 at age 46.

In December, she was told she had breast cancer, and she underwent a mastectomy at Winthrop University Hospital.

She underwent a mastectomy that year and a second in 1961, after the cancer recurred.

She underwent a mastectomy in Israel, followed by chemotherapy and radiation.

In England about 18,000 women a year undergo a mastectomy while about another 39,000 have some other form of breast surgery, such as a wide excision (lumpectomy).