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Thriving Survivors offers holistic support for women with breast cancer. We provide our community with support services that can help them heal from their treatment more quickly, experience fewer side effects, and come back more vibrant than ever.
Many women require surgery on the breast opposite of their breastcancerto achieve symmetry with their reconstructed breast site. Some women may require enlargement (breast augmentation) of the contra-lateral breast while others may require a breast reduction. Older women with ptotic breasts (that "d...
Breast reconstruction doesn’t change the chance of cancer coming back, and it generally doesn’t interfere with treatment. If the disease does come back, your medical team can still treat you with surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and targeted therapy. What Are the Possible Side Effects? Infecti...
Determine the stage of the cancer and whether additional treatment is necessary. Treat the cancer locally. Surgery is local therapy that can remove cancer cells in or near the breast but cannot treat breast cancer cells that have spread to other locations in the body. Cancer cells that have sp...
Local therapies, such as surgery and radiation, are used to remove or destroy breast cancer in a specific area. If the breast cancer has spread to other parts of the body, local therapy may also be used to control cancer in those specific areas, such as in the lung or bone. Systemic ...
If the biopsy shows that you havebreast cancer, the pathologist’s report will include details about the tumor. This will help your doctor recommend a treatment plan.
surgery on your breast, including lymph nodal surgery (if required) will be performed through the same scar. Therefore, there won’t be any scar on the breast (except in some cases where it may be necessary to remove the skin on the breast if the underlying cancer is close to the skin...
When you have completely recovered from surgery, you should have regular checkups, including yearly mammograms of your other breast, to look for any recurrence of breast cancer.Ask your healthcare provider what other steps you should take. What are the benefits of this procedure?You will have a...
Almost all insurances are required to cover breast reconstruction procedures, including procedures on the other breast, due to the Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act. Our practice also accepts other convenient payment methods (described in the section below) that can make the costs of the proc...