According to this article, "this more extensive surgery offers no significant survival benefit to women with a first diagnosis of breast cancer."  Doctors, listen up -- Survival is not the point!!!  Stage one and even two breast cancer is survivable without question in the world of modern medicine.  Women have started talking to each other via social media and increased open discussion about breast cancer options.  And, guess what, they have discovered that "survival" is a meaningless statistic.  A lumpectomy may have the same survival rate, but it is survival with radiation, damaged breast tissue that cannot be attractively reconstructed, continued mammograms, and probable, if not certain, additional surgery.  A bilateral mastectomy with immediate reconstruction is survival with attractive, lifted, breasts, no radiation, no mammograms, no more surgeries.  A recovery of three weeks, max, for a bilateral mastectomy is nothing compared to weeks of radiation, follow-up surgeries, and the possibility of future cancer. This is a case of cold, statistical results being presented to women as facts without discussion of the qualitative results.