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usmagazine.com - 8/21/2008

Christina Applegate: Double Mastectomy a "Tough Choice"

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Christina Applegate , who chose to have both of her breasts removed after one was found to contain cancerous lumps, will undergo breast reconstruction surgery over the next eight months. "I didn't want to go back to the doctors every four months for testing and squishing and everything," she told Good Morning America in an interview that aired Tuesday. "I just wanted to kind of get rid of this whole thing for me," she said of the prophylactic double mastectomy. "This was the choice that I ...

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