Mastectomy

...the family, then it certainly is reasonable for a man to speak with a genetic counselor. Q: Will counselors recommend prophylactic mastectomies? A: There's nothing in the medical literature that says you should do that for men. Most of the...

In this article: Breast cancer, Estrogen, Cancer, Brca2, E mail, Surgery, Reconstructive surgery, and Indiana University School of Medicine

...November 25, 2009 Ask a Pharmacist: You can protect yourself from breast cancer Posted November 25, 2009 at 11:50 a.m. Q: I had a mastectomy this summer and I am scared to lose my other breast, too. I recently found out about you and...

In this article: Estrogen, Cancer, Hormone, Breast cancer, Progesterone, 2-methoxyestradiol, and Flax

...unjustified worry and unneeded procedures, such as biopsies. In a small number of cases, women are subjected to cancer treatment or even a mastectomy they didn't need. This harm, the task force reasoned, outweighs the benefits of discovering...

In this article: Cancer, Breast cancer, American Cancer Society, Surgery, Biopsy, and United States

...her diagnosis at the age of 48. The five suspicious spots on her mammogram all turned out to be malignant, and she had a double mastectomy followed by chemotherapy three and a half years ago. "If I had waited two years, until I was 50,...

In this article: Breast cancer, Cancer, and Hysterectomy

...at this waste of her time -- announced that there was "absolutely nothing" there. But a biopsy revealed a malignant tumor. During the mastectomy that quickly followed, my surgeon also removed cancerous lymph nodes. Six months of...

In this article: Cancer, Breast cancer, Waste, Biopsy, Washington, and Pennsylvania

...ways to become more eco-friendly; the role of religion in climate change; and a revolutionary new way of regrow breasts after mastectomy Presented by Alok Jha and produced by Andy Duckworth guardian.co.uk, Monday 16 November 2009 00.01...

In this article: Climate change, Itunes, Copenhagen, Kyoto Protocol, Carbon, and Cancer

Researchers have developed a new technique to regrow breasts on pigs using their own tissue - and it's ready to be tested on human mastectomy patients. You can be the first to comment! Inappropriate comments, foul and offensive language,...

Human trials to begin of surgical treatment that could allow women to regrow their breasts after a mastectomy Scientists have developed a revolutionary surgical treatment that could allow women with cancer to regrow their breasts after a...

In this article: Breast cancer, Surgery, Cancer, Florence Nightingale, Melbourne, and London

...for the gene," she recalled. During subsequent MRIs, doctors twice found benign cysts, prompting her to seek a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy a precautionary procedure in which both breasts are removed to minimize the risk of malignancy.

In this article: Breast reconstruction, Breast cancer, Microsurgery, Cancer, Surgery, and Medical advice

...Nov 6 : Scientists have come up with a new plastic surgery technique that offers women the option of breast reconstruction after mastectomy that also provides a tummy tuck. The surgery, called Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator...

In this article: Breast reconstruction, Plastic surgery, Surgery, Breast cancer, Microsurgery, Cancer, and Brca1