Ellen Freeman Roth is a writer whose work has been published internationally. In her intimate essays mined from her daily life, she finds poignance, insights, and humor in how we manage the subtext of contemporary life.

She writes articles about styles and trends, people and ideas, and corporate social responsibility.

A body resculpted
 
One woman finds that saying good-bye to her breasts is both harder and easier than she ever imagined
by Ellen Freeman Roth

“I’ll cut them off.”

For years, that’s what I said after my doctor explained my risk of getting breast cancer. It’s not that I considered my breasts to be expendable. It’s just that with my family history — my mother died of ovarian cancer at 48; her sister died of breast cancer at 39; and I’d tested positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation, which increased my chances of developing both diseases — my doctor had been abundantly clear that if I was ever diagnosed with cancer, my safest option would be to have a bilateral mastectomy.

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