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Prophylactic Mastectomy
Study may tell who will benefit from preventive mastectomy
February 01, 2009
Expert & Community Posts
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 »
Choosing Double Mastectomy Before You Even Have Cancer - Jessica Queller's Decision
By Laura Zigman , Health Expert...results pointed to, or to have a prophylactic double mastectomy and oophorectomy. Queller was... Read more »
“Defying Destiny”: One Woman’s Response to the BRCA Gene
By PJ Hamel , Health Expert...issues Queller has dealt with, and continues to face—prophylactic mastectomy and removal of... Read more »
Failing As Usual: Double Mastectomies and "Choices" In Breast Cancer Treatment
By Laura Zigman , Health Expert...women who made a similar choice -- to have a double mastectomy when a single mastectomy may have... Read more »
Health Guide
Mastectomy
...prevent or reduce the risk of breast cancer, and is considered an alternative to intensive screening. Prophylactic mastectomy should be done only after very careful consideration, which often... Read more »Breast Reconstruction: Breast Implants
Q. I’m having a mastectomy, and after hearing about the various choices I have for reconstruction, I’ve decided to have an implant. Now I have to make the decision whether to have the implant... Read more »Types of Breast Cancer: Infiltrating/Invasive Lobular Carcinoma (ILC)
...for two lumpectomies, or even three, before you’re “clean.” And you may finally need to have a mastectomy, if the surgeon just can’t find clean margins. So be prepared for a bit more... Read more »Related News
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 »
Why some women choose a preventive mastectomy
April 10, 2009The 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 summary »
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 »
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 »
Video: Breast reconstructed with tissue from tummy
October 03, 2008Surgeons at a Philadelphia cancer center reconstructed the breast of a woman years after her radical mastectomy. They removed tissue in a tummy-tuck... Read summary »
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