Why aren't cancer patients being told their breasts can be saved? - Daily Mail 26th February 2008

Jean Pearce isn't the least bit vain, she says, but has "always been proud of her breasts". So when she was diagnosed with cancer three years ago, retaining them was almost as important as surviving the disease. "It was a relief when surgery amounted to no more than a 2cm lumpectomy," recalls the 63-year-old receptionist from Worcester. "I thought I'd got away with it - but when they sent the tissue off for analysis, they found pre- cancerous cells around the incision and I was told to prepare for a mastectomy."

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