How freezing my breast saved my breast.

They’re Mine and I’m keeping them is a story of innovation, courage, and triumph. Laura Ross-Paul decided to keep her breast after being diagnosed with breast cancer and facing a mastectomy. She tells the story of how she bucked the system, found a doctor whose advanced skill in the field of tumor freezing, cryo-ablation, and ultimately saved her breast. The success of their collaboration makes breast conservation a realistic outcome of breast cancer treatment.

It is the authors’ desire that telling this story will make others aware that freezing a breast can save a breast.

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Breast tumor cryoablation is an outpatient, minimally invasive percutaneous procedure that has already emerged as a substitute for surgery for early stage invasive breast cancer. In addition to reducing the morbidity, psychosocial and cosmetic impact of breast cancer therapy, this office-based procedure performed under local anesthesia also reduces the burden on the healthcare system by eliminating the need for an operating theater, an anesthesiologist and surgical team, and many personal protective devices, which are very important considerations during a national pandemic.