Remember the post I put up here on Ozzy's wife having her breasts cut
off because she carried a gene that MAY or MAY NOT cause he to get
breast cancer?
http://consfearacynewz.blogspot.com/2012/11/wtfeugenics-at-workif-you-have-inferior.html
NOW here is a 24 year old Miss America contestant doing the same god damned thing.
http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/allyn-rose-taking-control-her-life-double-mastectomy
Allyn
Rose, 24, represented Maryland in the 2011 Miss America pageant and
finished 8th overall. When she crosses the stage again on January 12,
2013, now as Miss Washington D.C., she will have a lot more than winning
the crown on her mind. The national title hopeful has decided to
undergo an elective double mastectomy to spare her a battle with breast
cancer, a disease that claimed her mother’s life.
The beauty
queen revealed her decision in an interview with People, in which she
explained the decision is based on her carrying a genetic mutation that
leaves her at risk for breast cancer at a young age.
Warning Signs of Breast Cancer
A Family Affair
When
most young girls are worrying about prom dates, homework, and learning
to drive at age 16, Allyn lost her mother to breast cancer. She said the
disease first developed in her mother’s right breast at age 27.
“My
mom had her right breast removed at 27, but at 47 or 48, it came back
in her left breast," she said in the interview. “It was already stage
three. She could have had that other breast removed, but I'm sure there
was a part of her that thought she didn't want to give up this other
part of herself."
She added, “My dad said he begged her for
years and years to get it removed, but she said no. It's ultimately the
thing that killed her. I had to become my own mentor. I had to go pick
out my prom dress by myself. I had to go to my high school graduation
without my mom. She didn't see me go off to college or go on my first
date or drive a car for the first time."
Sadly, Allyn's mother isn’t the only one in the family to succumb to breast cancer.
“It's
a very strange change in our genetic code. Almost all of the women in
my family have passed away from it,” she told People.
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A Hollywood Connection
Allyn
isn’t the only high-profile woman to elect to have her breasts removed.
And she’s certainly not the only young woman to make this decision,
either.
In the spring of 2008, actor Christina Applegate, then
36, also had a double mastectomy to prevent a recurrence of breast
cancer. Applegate’s cancer was diagnosed in the early stages and was
only in her left breast, but she elected to have both breasts removed
after testing positive for the BRCA gene.
Guiliana Rancic, 37,
host of “E! News” told the “Today Show” in December, 2011, that she
decided to go forward with a double mastectomy over other procedures in
her battle with breast cancer because “all it came down to was choosing
to live and not looking over my shoulder the rest of my life."
And
earlier this month Sharon Osbourne, cohost of the CBS daytime show “The
Talk” and wife to rocker, Ozzy Osbourne, revealed she underwent a
double mastectomy. Because Osbourne already battled cancer once (she had
colon cancer in 2000), the feisty talker told Hello! Magazine the
decision “was a no-brainer.”
“As soon as I found out I had the
breast cancer gene, I thought ‘The odds are not in my favor.' I've had
cancer before and I didn't want to live under that cloud. I decided to
just take everything off and had a double mastectomy. I didn't want to
live the rest of my life with that shadow hanging over me. I want to be
around for a long time and be a grandmother to (son Jack’s daughter)
Pearl.”
Famous Faces of Breast Cancer
The 'Breast Cancer Genes'
Having
either of the “breast cancer genes” known as BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene
greatly increases the risk of breast cancer, according to National
Cancer Institute (NCI) estimates. The overall lifetime risk of
developing breast cancer for those without the mutation is about 12.0
percent; 60 percent of women who have inherited either mutation will
develop breast cancer.
Why is Rose worried about this at such a young age?
Turns out time isn’t on her side.
The
Centers for Disease Control says as long as a woman doesn’t carry
either BRCA gene mutation, 0.5 percent of women currently age 30 will
develop breast cancer in the next 10 years. However, the NCI says women
with either BRCA gene mutation have an increased risk of developing
breast cancer before menopause.
Genetic testing is required to
determine if a woman carries either BRCA1 or BRCA2 but both men and
women are at increased risk of breast cancer if they have the genetic
mutation.
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Life Over Body Image
Allyn
says her mastectomy and subsequent reconstruction is a "very risky"
plan and "not exactly seamless." But she’s resolved it’s worth it.
"Your
skin may be damaged in a way that you will lose your nipple, or
sometimes women lose all of their breast tissue," she said in the
interview. “[But] Breasts don't define your life. I'm choosing life over
beauty. I'm choosing to remove something that’s so iconic to my
womanhood.”
To help promote awareness, Allyn’s pageant platform revolves around educating people to be proactive about their healthcare.
“Title
holders across the country get an opportunity to speak to their
generation and have something they can advocate,” she said. “Being in
the industry and competing in the most iconic swimsuit competition in
the world, I thought to myself, 'If I were to win and have this surgery a
year from now, would I be a different Miss America because I lost my
breast?' No.”
The timing of her surgery coincides with the Miss
America crown. If she wins in January, Allyn will have the surgery once
she passes the jeweled headpiece to her successor in January 2014. If
the crown eludes her, she will have her surgery at the conclusion of her
reign as Miss Washington D.C. in June, 2013.
“To win the [Miss
America] pageant would truly have my mother’s dreams for me come to
fruition," she said. "Never once in my life did I doubt my mom's love
for me or that she wouldn't do anything to have me succeed in life. Some
people will never experience that kind of relationship with a parent."
What pisses me off the most is not their stupidity but the fact that
many young girls look up to these people and they are setting/starting a
very bad trend.
f**king SICK!!!
WHAT THE f**k IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?
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