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A Breast Cancer Patient Shares Her Story: What It’s Like To Have A Double Mastectomy

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Dr. Jay Harness Staff

Wendy Freden was diagnosed with stage 1A multifocal invasive breast cancer when she was 44, after feeling a lump in her breast. Now, at 45, she’s cancer free, but getting there took a lot of difficult decisions. In a post … Continue reading →

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Study: Anxiety Rules Over Necessity, As More Women With Breast Cancer Choose to Remove Healthy Breast

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Dr. Jay Harness Staff

One in three breast cancer patients under age 45 removed the healthy breast along with the breast affected by cancer in 2012, a sharp increase from the one in 10 younger women with breast cancer who had double mastectomies eight … Continue reading →

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New JAMA Published Research: Too Many Patients Remove Healthy Breast When No Medical Reason To Do So

Posted on December 21, 2016 by Dr. Jay Harness Staff

New research reveals that for women with early-stage breast cancer, misunderestanding the value of surgery lead too many patients to remove a healthy breast when there is no medical reason to do so. Patients were more likely to make this … Continue reading →

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Celebrity Health Endorsements: How Angelina Jolie’s May 2013 Breast Cancer Op-Ed Cost Millions in Unnecessary Tests

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Dr. Jay Harness Staff

Three years ago, Angelina Jolie announced in a New York Times op-ed that she’d had a preventive double mastectomy after testing positive for mutations in the BRCA1 gene, which put her at an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancers. … Continue reading →

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Study: Double Mastectomy Not The Improve Quality Of Life Answer For Cancer in One Breast

Posted on March 17, 2016 by Dr. Jay Harness Staff

Increasingly, younger women with early-stage cancer in only one breast and no genetic risk factors are choosing to have double mastectomies. But there’s little evidence to suggest that removing the healthy breast will prolong their lives. Now a Duke Cancer … Continue reading →

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Doctors Alarmed by Rise in Breast Cancer Mastectomies

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Dr. Jay Harness Staff

The rate of breast cancer is holding steady, but federal data released this week shows more women are undergoing mastectomies, in this report from the Orange County Register. From 2005 to 2013, the rate of mastectomy, where the entire breast … Continue reading →

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Cancer Free, But Opting For A Mastectomy: A BRCA Gene Carrier Shares Her Story

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Dr. Jay Harness Staff

The 2007 story of 33-year old Deborah Lindner, who underwent a preventive mastectomy after learning she carried the BRCA gene, recently published in The New York Times. Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe … Continue reading →

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Defying Doctors, More Women With Breast Cancer Choose Double Mastectomies

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Dr. Jay Harness Staff

Researchers have tracked sharp increases in double mastectomies, even among women at low risk for cancer to develop in the other breast and for whom the radical procedure offers no additional survival benefits. Doctors call it a profound shift in … Continue reading →

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