In my research I am coming across an awful lot of anecdotes about people having whole entire bones removed from their bodies, including the sentence "you don't really NEED your collarbones," and, uh,,
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Replying to @gaileyfrey
They used to take out your collarbones and parts of the rib cage in breast cancer surgeries, before the role of the lymph system in spreading it was understood.
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Replying to @q_aurelius @gaileyfrey
The history of breast cancer treatment and mastectomies is terrifying. Like, legit horror movie stuff.
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If you're morbidly curious, I can recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Bathshebas-Breast-Women-Cancer-History/dp/0801880645 …
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Replying to @fozmeadows @gaileyfrey
I appreciate the link, :) but I'm the opposite of morbidly curious. I'm kind of wishing I could scrub that from my brain instead of carrying it around forever. And also not at all surprised that a surgery undertaken only by women is unnecessarily horrible.
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I might be misremembering the details about bone removal, so take comfort in that. But, yeah.
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