the answer to the trivia question of the day. and the winner is do we have their name? we don t have is their name. you ll get a copy of brian s book. we ll come back with that. a shocking study on breast cancer is revealing for nearly 60,000 women diagnosed each year, treatment will not make a difference. here to explain it is the director of surgery at the einstein cancer center. explain what it is. it speaks to the heart of the matter what is dcis. what that means is that we all contain milk ducts. there are cells within that are behaving abnormally. however they re trapped within
now as to tony robinson jr. and my decision today. in making this decision, i hold myself to the reasonable doubt standard. in other words, what can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. to begin, i reviewed the following evidence. the scene on the evening of march 6th. observation of the initial law enforcement response on march 6th. police reports including dcis, wisconsin state patrol and the city of madison police department. medical examiners reports and autopsy, wisconsin crime lab reports, citizen interviews paramedic, emt, and firefighter
just said, you know, enough already. i can t go through this anymore. i m really grateful that, you know, my prognosis is good now. so what they found was, what i went in for was this dcis, duck tall carcinoma inside on my right breast and my right breast had a bunch of things that looked odd and weren t sure what they were and didn t want any more biopsies. i got my final pathology report back and in my left breast i have breast cancer stage 1, grade 1 invasive. the good news is that my lymph nodes are free and clear, so great. i m good. i guess the next stage now is that i have to meet with an oncologist and find out if i want to go on any drugs like tamoxifen because i have a higher risk for developing more cancers in the future. so that conversation needs to happen, but, you know, all of the breast tissue is gone and all of the cancer in my breast is gone. my right breast actually ended up having lop pew lar carcinoma
near future, people will have access. wide access to this. it is expensive. reporter: i have chose tony have a double mastectomy. reconstruction covered by insurance companies? it usually is today as an option for women. reporter: jolie made it clear is her number one priority is to be around for her six children. her partner, brad pitt said yesterday, all i want is for her to have a long and healthy life with myself and our children. i have to say, a lot of different opinions on what you should choose to have done or what you shouldn t have done. there has been a really great dialog created. i did a piece on cnn.com and a lot of people have asked me specifically, why are you having a double mastectomy when you were diagnosed with dcis in one breast? that s a very valid question and if i m going to put my life out there, i m going to go ahead and continue the dialog. i ll do a piece that talks about
he s done research so that he could figure out how to help me with the bandages and the drains that have to happen and then we talked about, you know, this really touchy subject about how do you deal with this major change, and is it going to be okay with you. and how i feel about it and there have been some very graphic and very difficult conversations. we looked at a lot of pictures and you know, we ve talked it out, and i think at the end of the day, what it s going to do is bring us closer together not just the two of us, but the entire family. what was your decision making process in terms of having the surgery? i, you know, i have this cancer diagnosis, it s an early form of breast cancer in my left breast. it s called dcis. did this come as a complete surprise to you? no, actually, before i started here two years ago at cnn, i had a breast cancer scare and i had a lumpectomy and it was benign. i was so grateful for it. at that time they said to me at this stage of the ga