Sentences with phrase «mastectomy as a breast cancer»

In her New York Times piece published today, Angelina Jolie bravely announced that she just underwent elective bilateral mastectomy as a breast cancer...

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I registered to offer my experience as encouragement: After having breast cancer and a mastectomy before my second daughter was born, I have been able to successfully breastfeed her using my remaining healthy breast.

Cuomo said he learned a lot about the issue over the past year as Lee, a celebrity TV chef, battled breast cancer, undergoing a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery.

As part of her treatment, Lee underwent a double mastectomy for early stage breast cancer.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Gov. Andrew Cuomo describes his girlfriend's battle against breast cancer as a «torturous long road with tears and pain,» one that ended with a double mastectomy.

According to Dr. Gass, «In an era where we see more early - staged breast cancer patients choosing mastectomy, no study has previously addressed breast specific sensuality, defined as the breast's role during intimacy.

«Because bilateral mastectomy is an elective procedure for unilateral breast cancer [in one breast] and may have detrimental effects in terms of complications and associated costs as well as body image and sexual function, a better understanding of its use and outcomes is crucial to improving cancer care,» according to background information in the article.

«Double mastectomy tied to more missed work: As more breast cancer patients are choosing to remove both breasts, researchers examine the impact this aggressive surgery has on their employment.»

Radiotherapy to the chest wall and regional lymph nodes (under the arm, above the collar bone and under the breast bone), known as regional nodal irradiation, is used after mastectomy in women with node - positive breast cancer who are treated with adjuvant systemic therapy.

Dr Jeremy Thomas, a consultant pathologist at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK, told the European Breast Cancer Conference that although the majority of women with DCIS received the correct surgery for their disease, large numbers of women were undergoing mastectomy for DCIS either as a result of failed breast conservation surgery or for tumors that turned out to be smaller than 20 mm in diameter and therefore should normally have had a lumpectomy rather than a masteBreast Cancer Conference that although the majority of women with DCIS received the correct surgery for their disease, large numbers of women were undergoing mastectomy for DCIS either as a result of failed breast conservation surgery or for tumors that turned out to be smaller than 20 mm in diameter and therefore should normally have had a lumpectomy rather than a mastebreast conservation surgery or for tumors that turned out to be smaller than 20 mm in diameter and therefore should normally have had a lumpectomy rather than a mastectomy.

«Women with unilateral breast cancer undergoing contralateral prophylactic mastectomy continue to report a desire to extend life as one of the most important factors leading to their surgical decision,» added Dr. Golshan.

(ISTOCKPHOTO) There's no such thing as breast cancer prevention (although prophylactic mastectomy or taking drugs to prevent a recurrence get pretty close).

Even a decade ago, treating cancer in one breast by removing both — known as a contralateral prophylactic mastectomy («contralateral» meaning opposite side, and «prophylactic» meaning preventive)-- would have sounded like a radical choice.

Soon after her diagnosis, the actress elected to have a double mastectomy to remove the cancerous tissue in one breast and as a preventive measure for her other breast, which was cancer - free.

Myself I'm not a doctor but my sister had breast cancer at 24 the first time received a radical mastectomy, chemo and radiation she got it the second time at 35 and had a mastectomy on the other breast (not radical) chemo and radiation as well both time they were very aggressive cancers.

Prophylactic surgery to remove a contralateral breast during breast cancer surgery (known as contralateral prophylactic mastectomy) reduces the risk of breast cancer in that breast (2,4,5,13), although it is not yet known whether this risk reduction translates into longer survival for the patient (13).

Angelina Jolie who played the «good witch» in and as Maleficentwent under the knife for a preventative double mastectomy after she was diagnosed of having an 87 % percent chance of developing breast cancer owing to her genetic history.

came some four years after her diagnosis of liver cancer (plus breast cancer and subsequent mastectomy a decade before) and her position as an outsider, a Black lesbian feminist scholar living and slowly dying within a socially hardened America.

Mr. Regar's client was a 45 - year - old employed female who had a partial mastectomy and chemotherapy treatment as a result of breast cancer.