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Why some women choose a preventive mastectomy
April 10, 2009
Expert & Community Posts
On Choosing Radical Cancer Surgery (Elective Double Mastectomy in Today's Washington Post)
By PJ Hamel , Health Expert...predilection of women with breast cancer to have a mastectomy, rather than a lumpectomy; or a... Read more »
Two New FAQs on Breast Reconstruction and Breast Forms/Prostheses
By PJ Hamel , Health Expert......for a Prosthesis (Breast Form) After Read more »
I Chose Saline Implants
By Jeannette Vagnozzi , Health Expert...how I chose saline breast implants after my double mastectomy at age 40. Read more »
More Women Opting for Double Mastectomy: Is It Justified?
By PJ Hamel , Health Expert...women opting for double mastectomies (when a single mastectomy was indicated) more than doubled... Read more »
Health Guide
Breast Reconstruction FAQs: Implant After Mastectomy?
...reconstruction: Part of your body (muscle and/or fat) is surgically “rearranged” into the space left by your mastectomy; or part of your body is cut off, moved, and reattached at the site of... Read more »Breast Reconstruction FAQs: What Are My Choices After Mastectomy?
......natural and symmetrical as possible, even without clothes. Next Reconstruction FAQ: Implant After Mastectomy?Also, Breast Cancer Comics: Breast Implant Reconstruction in a Nutshell Read more »October 23rd: Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy
...October 23: Tune into Lifetime tonight at 9 PM for the movie premiere of Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy, the story of Geralyn Lucas, author of a book by the same title, who was diagnosed... Read more »Related News
More high-risk women opt for double mastectomy
December 07, 2008More young, healthy women who have a familial or genetic predisposition to breast cancer are opting for a preventive double mastectomy, experts say.... Read summary »
Adjustable Breast Implants
May 05, 2008BOCA RATON, Fla. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Right now, more than 2 million women in the United States are living with breast cancer. Many of these... Read summary »
Study may tell who will benefit from preventive mastectomy
February 01, 2009Texas researchers say they’ve identified markers that may help doctors identify which patients would benefit from a preventive mastectomy. The... Read summary »
What patients don't know about mastectomy can cause breast disfigurement
May 10, 2009Many of the 180,000 women who are diagnosed with invasive breast cancer each year will undergo mastectomy, and a significant portion of them will be... Read summary »
Mastectomies on the increase
October 03, 2008According to the Mayo Clinic, the number of U.S. women undergoing mastectomies for breast cancer is rising again. Researchers say the number of... Read summary »
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