I find it incredible that surgeons do not know that you can dry up on one
side.  This is the level of breastfeeding knowledge in our medical
community.

On the other hand, if the needle biopsy shows a benign lump, what's the rush
to take it out?  What exactly is it going to do to operate next month
instead of next year.  Operating on benign lumps does not decrease a woman's
risk of breast cancer. On the other hand, breastfeeding does.

Incidentally, all women should know and lactation consultants should advise
any of their patients that periareolar incisions, which surgeons like to do
to keep the breast looking "pretty" (it doesn't actually, but it's a matter
of "a chacun son gout"), actually can destroy the function of the breast,
which is to produce milk.

Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC

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