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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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For Men With BRCA Genes, Preventative Mastectomy Is Prevention Option

Posted on November 29, 2016 by Dr. Jay Harness Staff

Not only can men get breast cancer, men can also carry the so-called BRCA breast cancer genes. In this report from CBS News, this fact leads some men to have preventative mastectomies. A mutation in the genes known as BRCA … Continue reading →

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With Dramatic Rise in Patient Requests for Double Mastectomy, Breast Cancer Doctors Seek to Persuade Women of Alternatives

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Dr. Jay Harness Staff

Cancer specialists at several major hospitals are working to reduce the growing number of women with breast cancer who want to remove both their unaffected breast and the one with cancer, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. About 20% … 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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