What is a double mastectomy, and why have one? Double mastectomy is the surgical removal of both breasts. The purpose is to: remove breast cancer reduce the risk of cancer for those who may be at high risk for breast cancer allow for symmetry avoid ongoing surveillance imaging if you’re at a high risk of breast cancer Your doctor may …
Your Guide to Understanding a Double Mastectomy
From: healthline.com In this article, we’ll talk about when double mastectomy is a good option, different types of surgery, potential alternatives, and what you can expect recovery to be like. What is a double mastectomy, and why have one? Double mastectomy is the surgical removal of both breasts. The purpose is to: remove breast cancer reduce the risk of cancer …
Your Guide to Understanding a Double Mastectomy
From: healthline.com A double (bilateral) mastectomy is the surgical removal of both breasts. This procedure is used to treat breast cancer or to reduce the risk of breast cancer in people with a high risk. What is a double mastectomy, and why have one? Double mastectomy is the surgical removal of both breasts. The purpose is to: remove breast cancer …
Double mastectomy may offer no survival benefit to women with breast cancer
By: Ernie Mundell From: medicalxpress.com Women who are diagnosed with breast cancer in one breast, even in the early stages, sometimes opt for a double mastectomy, due to the fear that the cancer will migrate to the other breast. But that decision may not offer any real benefit in terms of survival, an exhaustive new study of more than 600,000 …
When it comes to breast cancer treatment, is a double mastectomy a good idea?
By: Elli Jacobs From: smh.com.au In 2013, Renee Gani, then 36, received the news every woman dreads. “Being large-busted, I always had a habit of checking myself,” she says. “I found a lump in my right breast and waited for a week hoping it would disappear.” But a biopsy confirmed it was indeed breast cancer. “My immediate thought was to …
Scarring After Breast Cancer Surgery
With all of the issues associated with breast cancer surgery, one that does not receive much attention, if any at all, is the scars after breast cancer surgery. At the time of decision-making before surgery, most of us focus on what needs to be done in order to remove the cancer and selecting a course of treatment that prevents the …
Breast cancer survivors have double mastectomies they do not need
Young women breast cancer survivors are having their remaining healthy breast needlessly removed because they over-estimate the chance that disease will return, a study has found. By Laura Donnelly, and agencies Research on more than 120 women who had a double mastectomy found that they believed the risks that cancer would return were twice as high as they were. The …
Introducing “The BREASTation”
Start with the statistic of 7 out of 10 women who have breast cancer surgery are never apprised of their options regarding reconstruction. Give that information to a 2x breast cancer survivor who has had a double mastectomy with reconstruction. Have that survivor discuss the information with her plastic surgeon, Dr. Saul Berger, who made her journey so easy and …
A nano ray of hope for breast cancer patients
Amy Fernandes IIT-B prof finds way to reduce drugs toxicity. Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie’s recent double mastectomy may have intensified the debate on breast cancer, but the number of women affected by it only continues to rise. One of the many causes of fatality is the high toxicity of the treatment and the current disability of affected cells to absorb …
What the heck is BRA Day?
On September 18th, I received an invitation from Dr. Saul Berger & New Age Aesthetics to stop by their offices to pick up a special skin care gift bag in honor of BRA Day. Dr. Berger is the surgeon who did my breast reconstruction after my double mastectomy so I appreciated the invitation to see him and his wonderful staff …
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