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A sports bra with front hooks, or a seamless bra (no underwires). After lumpectomy, your breast might be swollen and heavy and you might need a bigger bra for a while. If necessary, make a sling to support your breast while recovering.
Remember that if the breast cancer does recur, there are many ways to deal with it, and new ways are being discovered all the time. Metastatic breast cancer is often manageable with good quality of life. There is always hope and new treatments.
“There are worse things than death,” wrote a doctor to me in an email from overseas about a fear of death. What an odd thing to say, I thought, but over the years I have learned to understand the wisdom of her words.
