If you have breast cancer, your oncology doctor may recommend that you have a lumpectomy. A lumpectomy is exactly what it sounds like, which is the removal of a lump of cancerous tissue – a surgery where your surgeon removes the tumor and not the full breast. A lumpectomy is much less invasive Read More
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What You Need to Know About Breast Surgery
If you’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer, you need to make a decision about treatment – which usually involves breast surgery. The surgery that follows this diagnosis is either a lumpectomy or a mastectomy. A lumpectomy, which is the removal of part of the breast, used to be the only option Read More
More Than Cosmetic Surgery: What Could Breast Surgery Mean?
Women are choosing breast augmentation surgery – more than any other type of cosmetic surgical procedure – to improve how they feel about their physical appearance, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. More than 300,000 breast augmentation procedures were done in 2017, which is 3 Read More
If I Have the Cancer Gene: Should I Consider Breast Surgery?
We all face choices and make decisions every day. Some are obviously bigger than others. Should I buy a house? Is now the time to start a family? When you are faced with a healthcare issue though, your choices may seem more overwhelming. Many women, for instance, who have inherited the BRCA 1 or Read More
Preparing for Breast Cancer Surgery
The early spring day revealed a flawless blue sky. Birds were happily chirping, hopping from branch to branch. Christina gazed out the window, waiting for her husband to drive around with the car and pick her up. Oddly enough, the world seemed quite happy to continue spinning on, even though for Read More
