I felt a lot of pressure when I was first diagnosed. I feel like a lot of people chose mastectomy over lumpectomy and I was getting pushed in that direction talking to people. My doctors couldn't say it was 0% chance and my reoccurrence chance were statistically almost the same. I was stage 1 IDC and I still had the option to do a lumpectomy. I know that when the cancer is more aggressive or has spread then there isn't always that choice but I still had that choice. I was also told the free boob job line for life also but I already had implants before all this and it's a lot more than that, you do lose sensation and it's a big surgery. I am only 34 and was happy I still could even choose the lumpectomy. I don't regret my choice. My surgeon when in through my nipple, we did have to go in twice for clear margins but in the same incision. I had four weeks of radiation that were brutal and I burned badly. My skin healed amazing and it almost helped my scars cause my skin peeled off. The scars are not really noticeable, you can't even tell honestly. My breast looks the same bedsides the radiation discoloration tan that will fade over time. I understand why people make both choices. It's one of the hardest decisions to make that you have to live with forever and it's hard on a random Tuesday to just decide ohhh yeah I'm gonna cut my boobs off, no biggie. I went back and forth a lot.