Categories
- Awards & Honors (11)
- Breast Cancer Surgery (113)
- Breast Ultrasound (24)
- Chemotherapy (73)
- Clinical Trials (44)
- Diet & Exercise (62)
- Doctor-Patient Relationship (97)
- Dr. Jay Harness Expertise (201)
- Early Detection (149)
- Emotional Reconstruction® (303)
- Events (8)
- Genetic Screening & Testing (117)
- Information Strength (604)
- International Authority (64)
- Lymphedema (7)
- Mammograms (87)
- Newly diagnosed breast cancer (49)
- News (36)
- Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy (76)
- Oncoplastic Reconstruction (84)
- Online Resource (42)
- orange county breast cancer surgeon (103)
- orange county breast cancer surgery (104)
- Patients Speak (167)
- Prevention (131)
- Radiation Therapy (56)
- Research News (326)
- Speaking Up (31)
- Video (315)
- We Live You®: The Latest (620)
Archives
- July 2017 (11)
- June 2017 (10)
- May 2017 (10)
- April 2017 (8)
- March 2017 (10)
- February 2017 (9)
- January 2017 (10)
- December 2016 (10)
- November 2016 (10)
- October 2016 (10)
- September 2016 (11)
- August 2016 (9)
- July 2016 (10)
- June 2016 (11)
- May 2016 (11)
- April 2016 (8)
- March 2016 (10)
- February 2016 (10)
- January 2016 (10)
- December 2015 (10)
- November 2015 (9)
- October 2015 (11)
- September 2015 (10)
- August 2015 (10)
- July 2015 (10)
- June 2015 (10)
- May 2015 (11)
- April 2015 (10)
- March 2015 (9)
- February 2015 (10)
- January 2015 (10)
- December 2014 (10)
- November 2014 (10)
- October 2014 (13)
- September 2014 (10)
- August 2014 (8)
- July 2014 (9)
- June 2014 (10)
- May 2014 (10)
- April 2014 (10)
- March 2014 (10)
- February 2014 (10)
- January 2014 (10)
- December 2013 (10)
- November 2013 (10)
- October 2013 (12)
- September 2013 (10)
- August 2013 (10)
- July 2013 (11)
- June 2013 (10)
- May 2013 (10)
- April 2013 (7)
- March 2013 (10)
- February 2013 (10)
- January 2013 (9)
- December 2012 (10)
- November 2012 (12)
- October 2012 (10)
- September 2012 (10)
- August 2012 (10)
- July 2012 (3)
- June 2012 (7)
- May 2012 (10)
- April 2012 (10)
- March 2012 (11)
- February 2012 (10)
- January 2012 (11)
- December 2011 (8)
- November 2011 (12)
- October 2011 (10)
- September 2011 (10)
- August 2011 (12)
- July 2011 (2)
- June 2011 (10)
- May 2011 (10)
- April 2011 (11)
- March 2011 (9)
- February 2011 (11)
- January 2011 (11)
- December 2010 (9)
- November 2010 (2)
- October 2010 (2)
- September 2010 (2)
- August 2010 (8)
- July 2010 (1)
Popular Tags
antiestrogen therapy bilateral mastectomy BRCA-positive BRCA 1 BRCA 2 breast cancer empathy breast cancer gene mutation breast cancer history breast cancer immunotherapy breast cancer overdiagnosis breast cancer over treatment breast cancer patient emotional reconstruction Breast cancer patient information breast cancer prevention breast MRI breast reconstruction DCIS dense breasts double mastectomy Dr. Jay Harness ductal carcinoma in situ emotional reconstruction estrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancer false-positive mammogram first person breast cancer patient story history of breast cancer individualized breast cancer patient care information strength intraoperative radiation therapy IORT lumpectomy male breast cancer mammogram managing breast cancer fear mastectomy multidisciplinary breast cancer care nipple sparing mastectomy noninvasive DCIS oncoplastic reconstruction post-breast cancer treatment recovery preventative mastectomy prophylactic mastectomy radiation therapy single-dose intraoperative electron radiation therapy tamoxifen- An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Try again later.
Monthly Archives: July 2014
Breast cancer expert Dr. Jay Harness, also the Medical Director of Breast Cancer Answers, discusses whether cell phones – and how you carry one – does or does not increase your risk of developing breast cancer. For more information on … Continue reading
After a decades-long trend toward less invasive surgery, breast cancer patient interest in removing the unaffected breast through a procedure called contralateral prophylactic mastectomy [or C.P.M., as it’s known in the trade] is skyrocketing, as reported in this first person … Continue reading
ESPN sportscaster Stuart Scott offered his acceptance speech for the Jimmy V Perseverance Award, during the recent national broadcast of the 2014 ESPYs. The award is named for Jim Valvano, a college basketball coach and ESPN broadcaster who died of … Continue reading
Posted in Emotional Reconstruction®, Information Strength, Patients Speak, Video, We Live You®: The Latest
Tagged breast cancer survivor, breast cancer thriver, language of breast cancer
Comments Off
Medical researchers have long sought an easy, non-invasive test that could detect cancer early, no matter where in the body it arises. Currently, a doctor’s best way of diagnosing cancer is by biopsy, where a tissue sample is removed from … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical Trials, Early Detection, Information Strength, Research News, We Live You®: The Latest
Tagged blood testing
Comments Off
About 40 percent of women who have mammograms have dense breast tissue, which means they have more connective and fibrous tissue than usual. Until recently, that information was rarely relayed to women, though it was routinely noted in the radiologist’s … Continue reading
Posted in Early Detection, Emotional Reconstruction®, Information Strength, Mammograms, We Live You®: The Latest
Tagged dense breasts
Comments Off
A columnist who has had breast cancer – and who hates the word “survivor” – offers this perspective in The Guardian: I’ve been through the chemo and the radiation. And what awaits me? A whole new world of post-cancer scaremongering. … Continue reading
Posted in Emotional Reconstruction®, Information Strength, Patients Speak, We Live You®: The Latest
Tagged post-breast cancer scaremongering, post-breast cancer treatment recovery
Comments Off
Adding a newer test to digital mammograms can increase the detection rate for breast cancer and decrease nerve-racking false alarms, according to a new study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, otherwise known as JAMA. As reported … Continue reading
Posted in Emotional Reconstruction®, Information Strength, Mammograms, Research News, Video, We Live You®: The Latest
Tagged 3-D mammography, false-positive mammogram, tomosynthesis
Comments Off
In this video, breast cancer expert Dr. Jay Harness discusses how nipple-sparing mastectomy and surgical reconstruction supports the Emotional Reconstruction® of the breast cancer patient. Emotional Reconstruction is a treatment option offered exclusively by Dr. Harness among breast cancer medical … Continue reading