I was still under the impression that I had a pre-cancerous non-cancerous type of cancer that wasn't really cancer when I met with the head surgeon at the Sagoff Breast Center at the Faulkner Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Margaret Duggan - a tall, fiercely intelligent, completely approachable, extremely accomplished surgeon who wore scrubs and a white coat and adorably hip but not annoyingly hip black-rimmed squarish glasses, took me into her office and...
A new study published this week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology online reports that the number of women opting for double mastectomies... Read more »
An article in today's Washington Post, "Choosing Radical Cancer Surgery," focuses on the increasing predilection of women with breast... Read more »
I read with great interest yesterday's front page Washington Post article about the increase in women opting for double mastectomies when... Read more »
A few weeks ago my friend who is the publisher of a new division of Random House sent me an amazing book she's publishing: PRETTY IS... Read more »
Despite the tag-teaming of breast surgeons and plastic surgeons, and despite the fact that there were no surgical complications, my... Read more »
More young, healthy women who have a familial or genetic predisposition to breast cancer are opting for a preventive double mastectomy, experts say.... Read more »
The number of young women who choose to have a double mastectomy in order to prevent breast cancer or a breast cancer recurrence is rising. Studies... Read more »
When I opted to proceed with reconstruction after my bilateral mastectomy, I was unprepared for the number of steps to complete the lengthy... Read more »
Source: Breastcancer.org
Mastectomy may be the right choice for you if the following is true for you: If the tumor is larger than 5 centimeters, you will probably need a... Read more »
Improvements in screening and genetic tests have made it easier for doctors to find breast cancer tumors when they are still small, or even before... Read more »
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