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Angelina Jolie's courageous act will save women's lives
Four days after her April 27 breast reconstruction, the third and final surgery aimed at sparing her an early death from breast cancer, Angelina Jolie was in good spirits at home. Upon paying a house call, her surgeon, Dr. Kristi Funk of the Pink...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Science, The New York Times, Elena Kagan, Medical Specialization
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Preventive mastectomy simply a matter of life and death
Fear of cancer is a horrible thing. It stays with you all day long, and it wakes you up at night. I didn't want to live with that, especially when I knew I could do something about it. Like Angelina Jolie, I have a genetic mutation that increased my...
Tags: Brad Pitt, U.S. Supreme Court, Family, Breast Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer
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New options for breast cancer surgery treat women faster, gentler and preserve more tissue
AP Chief Medical WriterCHICAGO (AP) — Treating breast cancer almost always involves surgery, and for years the choice was just having the lump or the whole breast removed. Now, new approaches are dramatically changing the way these operations are done, giving women more...Tags: O'Hare International Airport, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Mayo Clinic, Georgetown
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Angelina Jolie, the BRCA mutation and me
Late Monday night, friends and colleagues started sending me Angelina Jolie's op-ed about her decision to have a double mastectomy. Like Jolie, I have the mutation in my BRCA1 gene that pushed my lifetime risk of developing breast cancer to nearly 90%....
Tags: Brad Pitt, U.S. Supreme Court, Breast Cancer, Mastectomy, Mother's Day
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3-D nipple tattoos a growing business in breast reconstruction
TribuneSheryl, a 49-year-old mother of two, never thought she would get a tattoo, but six months after a bilateral mastectomy to remove both her breasts, she plans to get not one but two tattoos. Sheryl’s family is riddled with breast cancer. When she was...Tags: Plastic Surgeons, Artists, Fine Artists, Breast Cancer, Health and Medical Professionals
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Area artist helps pioneer 3-D nipple tattoos for breast cancer patients
After undergoing treatment for breast cancer, Lillie Shockney, the administrative director of the Johns Hopkins Breast Center, had nipple reconstruction — twice. Despite the many shades of patients' skin tone, "The color choices for doing it in the...
Tags: Plastic Surgeons, Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore, Maryland), Hospitals and Clinics, Breast Surgery, Health and Medical Professionals
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Cancer's funny?
Not long after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1994, Christine Clifford walked into her local Barnes and Noble with a simple request: "I'd like to see all of your humorous books about cancer." The clerk shot her a dirty look: "That's sick."...
Tags: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Comedy (genre), Chemotherapy, Cancer, The Big C (tv program)
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Yvette Kaweblum
Grateful that a breast examination as part of a study of an automated ultrasound device led to her cancer diagnosis, Yvette Kaweblum testified at a Food and Drug Administration hearing in Washington, D.C. in April. The device was approved by the FDA...
Tags: Soma (drug), Boca Raton Regional Hospital, Washington, DC, Chemotherapy, Cancer
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Amy Byer Shainman
Faced with a family history of breast, ovarian and uterine cancers, and a high likelihood that she might get one or more of the cancers, Amy Byer Shainman underwent a preventive double mastectomy with reconstruction surgery and a hysterectomy. "Surgery...
Tags: Cancer, Medical Procedures and Tests, Religion and Belief, Reconstruction, Plastic Surgeons
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Click here for breast cancer awareness events
BROWARD Through October Exhibt: Stories to Share Part IV North Regional Library, Coconut Creek Guests are invited to stop by the library’s art gallery to view Susan Buzzi’s book of photographs and stories from breast cancer survivors. Call...Tags: Macy's, Fort Lauderdale, Fashion Shows, Broward County, Boca Raton Regional Hospital
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Breast Cancer Awareness: Breast Reconstruction
PIX11.comArmen Kasabian, MD is Chief of Plastic Surgery and Reconstruction in the North Shore-LIJ Health System, and an Assistant Professor of Surgery NYU School of Medicine. He stopped by to tell us about breast reconstruction options. 1. All patients must be...Tags: Plastic Surgeons, Health and Medical Professionals, Breast Cancer, New York University, Medical Procedures and Tests
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FDA approves saliva test for detecting AIDS virus
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Food and Drug Administration Friday approved the first AIDS test that uses saliva instead of blood to determine whether a person has been infected by the virus. But the agency warned that the saliva test is not as accurate as the current tests that...Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, HIV, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), Medical Procedures and Tests, Companies and Corporations
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