Giuliana Rancic Will Undergo A Double Mastectomy After Being Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

Giuliana Rancic announced that she will undergo a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer back in October. She stated that after previous treatments were unsuccessful, this was the next option.

Rancic told NBC that her desire to have children was a big part of her decision to have the double mastectomy. She had previously undergone a double lumpectomy (where the tumor was removed rather than the whole breast), but the results were unsuccessful.

"If I had chosen to just do another lumpectomy and then do radiation and then do anti-estrogen therapy, which means two to five years of medication, that basically puts me into early menopause, then I would have to put off having a baby for several years," Rancic said on TODAY. "So that was something we took into account. But to be honest, at the end it all came down to was just choosing to live and not looking over my shoulder for the rest of my life."

NBC Washington reports that if she had the lumpectomy and radiation treatments, the chance of re-occuring cancer would be about 40% while having the mastectomy puts the risk of re-occuring cancer at less than 1%.