Breast Cancer: Women Often Choose Mastectomy
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Breast Cancer: Women Often Choose Mastectomy
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Mastectomy without cancer: some women choose not to live with hereditary breast-cancer risk - Healthzone.ca
healthzone.ca — “Theresa Quick was tired of looking over her shoulder. At 28, she had spent too many years waiting, wondering and bracing herself for the day breast...” View full resource at healthzone.ca
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Mastectomy without cancer: some women choose not to live with hereditary breast-cancer risk - thestar.com
thestar.com — “Removing breasts to prevent cancer may grow more common as a result of genetic testing, breast reconstruction techniques” View full resource at thestar.com
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Mastectomy without cancer: some women choose not to live with hereditary breast-cancer risk - Healthzone.ca
thestar.com — “Theresa Quick was tired of looking over her shoulder. At 28, she had spent too many years waiting, wondering and bracing herself for the day breast...” View full resource at thestar.com
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Breast reconstruction after mastectomy safe for older women
news-medical.net — “Breast cancer is on the rise and 48 percent of all breast cancers occur in women older than 65, but very few of them choose to have breast reconstruction. A new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center sought to determine if breast reconstruction after mastectomy is safe for older women. The answer is yes.” View full resource at news-medical.net
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More Women At High Risk Of Breast Cancer Choosing Double Mastectomies « CBS Chicago
chicago.cbslocal.com — “It's an extreme decision, but a potentially life-saving one. More and more women who find out they're at high risk for developing breast cancer are having surgery to remove their breasts. Chicago News, Sports, Weather, Traffic, and the Best of Chicago - CBS 2 TV | WBBM Newsradio 780 | 670 The Score” View full resource at chicago.cbslocal.com
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Women choose mastectomy to reduce breast cancer risk - News
virtualmedicalcentre.com — “Six out of ten Australian women would consider having both breasts removed if they were found to be at very high risk of breast cancer, according to survey results released by Cancer Australia.” View full resource at virtualmedicalcentre.com
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Tissue Expansion System for Breast Reconstruction Receives FDA Investigational Device Exemption
medgadget.com — “Though mastectomies are often a necessary and even welcome intervention to save the lives of women suffering from breast cancer, they also may contribute t” View full resource at medgadget.com
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Breast Cancer Fears Prompt More Preventive Mastectomies | ThirdAge
thirdage.com — “More and more women are choosing to have preventive mastectomies done to curb hereditary risk for breast cancer, doctors say.” View full resource at thirdage.com
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Radiation should follow a mastectomy for advanced cancer but often doesn't - latimes.com
latimes.com — “Almost half of older women with advanced breast cancer don't get the recommended radiation therapy after a mastectomy” View full resource at latimes.com
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Women Decide Between Breast Cancer Treatments - cbs4.com
cbs4.com — “Women diagnosed with breast cancer often must decide whether to have a mastectomy or a lumpectomy. In today's Komen for the cure, one woman shares how she was able to make that decision.” View full resource at cbs4.com
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Reconstruction After Mastectomy And Radiation; When Are The Right Times For Each? - QualityPoint Technologies
qualitypointtech.net — “An increasing number of women are undergoing mastectomy as a treatment for breast cancer or as a means of prevention. After breast cancer patients receive a mastectomy, a partial or full removal of the breast, often radiation therapy is required. Half of these women that go through the post or pre mastectomy radiation develop other complications, complications that place the patients back in the operating room much later for reconstructive procedures...” View full resource at qualitypointtech.net
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Reconstruction After Mastectomy And Radiation; When Are The Right Times For Each?: An increasing number of women a... http://bit.ly/arQjA5
Why 1 in 4 Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients Still Opt for Mastectomies - On Women (usnews.com)
usnews.com — “Sometimes doctors are to blame, but often women get a breast removed against medical advice.” View full resource at usnews.com
Most Recently Shared on April 9, 2010 at 11:59 pm By:
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Breast cancer treatment options: Why one in four women opt for mastectomy with early-stage cancer. http://bit.ly/cuckQD
Surgery for Breast Cancer: Complex Options, Difficult Decisions - On Women (usnews.com)
usnews.com — “Choosing between a lumpectomy and mastectomy isn't as easy as looking at a few study findings.” View full resource at usnews.com
Most Recently Shared on April 9, 2010 at 11:55 pm By:
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Surgical options equal difficult decisions for breast cancer patients. http://bit.ly/ceOE66
Life-Saving Benefits of Radiation Not Used Often After Mastectomy
seniorjournal.com — “March 30, 2010 - While radiation therapy is common after breast conserving surgery, it's much less frequent after mastectomy, even among women for whom it would have clear life-saving benefit. This is according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. Health news for senior citizens and baby boomers.” View full resource at seniorjournal.com
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Patients requesting prophylactic mastectomies overestimate their breast cancer risk, study suggests
feeds.sciencedaily.com — “Women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer believe the risk of the disease occurring in their unaffected breast is as much as 10 times higher than it actually is. As a result, they are choosing to have prophylactic mastectomies based on a false perception of increased risk, according to new research.” View full resource at feeds.sciencedaily.com
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