Can you have a mastectomy without cancer present?

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Just that really. Is that totally unacceptable in the UK?

my mum had bc and now about 20 mets and will die of it if the treatment doesn’t kill her first.

i had a mammogram and ultrasound. I have a cyst, which is at this stage just an irritation. I have to be careful of anyone pressing against it. But I don’t know why I have to have these 2 useless aggravating boobs (post meno). I would pay for the operation and it would save the NHS giving me any mammograms (I paid for the one I just had as I’m not yet 50 but post meno with a boob irritating). So I don’t see it adversely affecting anyone else/the NHS. The mastectomy (just going flat, no recon) was the easiest part of my mum’s treatment. I’d like to eliminate the risk of bc and get rid of the aggravation. I have no worries about losing boob/s. I am not typically feminine and I just can’t really see the point of waiting until I probably do develop cancer and giving it the chance to spread. My mum had 2 different breast cancers that both had to be removed.

thanks for any advice

I really don't know. I had a bilateral mastectomy but had cancer in both breasts and also had the BRCA2 gene.
I know that even women who've had cancer in one breast have had struggles to have the other breast removed for symmetry.
It's worth arranging an appointment with a private surgeon to discuss.

A friend of mine just had it done privately as she’s got the BRAC gene. She’s healing well and very relieved

Breast tissue extends under the arm so it's not a guarantee that all the tissue goes with the risk