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Monthly Archives: February 2017
Do lifestyle changes affect whether a woman remains cancer-free after treatment? That is the question raised in this report from the Washington Post. After reviewing data from 67 studies of women with breast cancer that examined the effect of various … Continue reading
Posted in Diet & Exercise, Emotional Reconstruction®, Information Strength, Research News
Tagged exercise as breast cancer prevention
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Some 20–30% of Australian women feel regret after deciding whether or not to have breast reconstruction. The same research showed the regret had a physiological impact on the women, according to the Breast Cancer Network Australia. A new online tool … Continue reading
Posted in Breast Cancer Surgery, Emotional Reconstruction®, Information Strength, Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy, Oncoplastic Reconstruction, Online Resource, Patients Speak, Video, We Live You®: The Latest
Tagged breast cancer patient emotional reconstruction, breast cancer reconstruction, breast reconstruction
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Receiving a positive mammogram result, then learning on follow-up that nothing is wrong, is good news. But a false positive mammogram has a dangerous downside: It may reduce the likelihood that a woman returns for later screenings, increasing her risk … Continue reading
Posted in Doctor-Patient Relationship, Emotional Reconstruction®, Information Strength, Mammograms, Prevention, Research News, We Live You®: The Latest
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It’s no surprise that most women with breast cancer consider hair loss one of the most traumatic aspects of chemotherapy. Earlier this week came good news. Women receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer are more likely to keep most of their … Continue reading
Posted in Chemotherapy, Emotional Reconstruction®, Information Strength, Research News, We Live You®: The Latest
Tagged DigniCap, Paxman System
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. ‘Breast in a day’ is a treatment approach in which the mastectomy and breast reconstruction happens all in one surgery, rather than the more common multiple surgeries over an extended period, in this report from NBC’s TODAY Show. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Breast Cancer Surgery, Emotional Reconstruction®, Genetic Screening & Testing, Information Strength, Oncoplastic Reconstruction, Video, We Live You®: The Latest
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A new device may hold the promise of eliminating an anguishing part of many breast-cancer surgeries: a follow-up operation to remove lingering cancer cells. Surgeons are beginning to use a tool – the Margin Probe – that shows promise in … Continue reading
Posted in Breast Cancer Surgery, Emotional Reconstruction®, Information Strength, Video, We Live You®: The Latest
Tagged breast cancer margin probe technology, margin probe sensor, MarginProbe
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Women with breast cancer who are at high risk for having a BRCA mutation that raises cancer risk often don’t get genetic testing, or even a chance to speak with a genetic counselor who’d help them weigh the necessity of … Continue reading
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Scientists have created a ‘map’ linking the shape of breast cancer cells to genes turned on and off, and matched it to real disease outcomes, which could one day help doctors select treatments, according to a study published in Genome … Continue reading
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Tagged NF-kappaB protein
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