An article in today's Washington Post, "Choosing Radical Cancer Surgery," focuses on the increasing predilection of women with breast cancer to have a mastectomy, rather than a lumpectomy; or a double mastectomy, rather than a single. This opting for more invasive, radical surgery, when health-care professionals are recommending far less surgery, has increased sharply in recent years. And that has some experts concerned.
This is a potentially dangerous trend. More surgery is always more...
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Source: Breastcancer.org
Before mastectomy surgery In the hospital on the day of surgery, you’ll change into a hospital gown and wait in a preoperative holding area. Some... Read more »
Source: Breastcancer.org
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