In 2017, Danielle Tropsa was diagnosed with stage 1 ER- and PR-positive, HER2-negativebreast cancer at the age of 30. The tumors were located in one breast, but Tropsa opted for a double mastectomy to reduce her risk of recurrence. “I also kept in mind what I wanted to look and feel like after [surgery],” she says, and she preferred the aesthetic outcome of a double mastectomy to that of a lumpectomy. Because of the location of the tumors, her nipple had to be removed on that breast. For symmetry purposes, she decided to have both nipples removed.
