Breast Lump Removal
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What's It Really Like to Live Through Breast Cancer?
… You even go to parties. You had the lumpectomy on a Friday and went to a birthday party on ..... worry about him. I was supposed to have a lumpectomy , chemo, and radiation. But after my lumpectomy , the margins weren't clear—there …
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A Reason to Be Hopeful: 5 New Breast Cancer Breakthroughs
… class of estrogen-lowering drugs called aromatase inhibitors can shrink some stage II and III tumors enough to allow for a lumpectomy instead of mastectomy. The Forecast: The drugs could prove pivotal in reducing the national mastectomy rate of 37 percent …
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How to Train Your Doctor
… Her surgeon flat out refused, insisting that she have a lumpectomy with radiation. Doumas recalls her doctor saying, "Oh ..... surgeon and got the double mastectomy she wanted. Though lumpectomy was a viable option, Doumas didn't want to live with the …
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The Science of Survival
… activists inspired cancer patients to fight for drug approvals. From the story of the Persian queen Atossa, who survived a crude lumpectomy in the fifth century B.C., to the prevaricating of American tobacco companies since the '50s, Mukherjee tells a compulsively …
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No More Drive-Through Mastectomies
… Representatives. The bill would guarantee, among other things, a minimum hospital stay of 48 hours for a woman having a mastectomy or lumpectomy . Those first two days are critical because that's when the risk of surgical complications is greatest, says Marisa Weiss …
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The Possibility of Joy: How Breast Cancer Changed My Life
… On me, it is not going to slip off so fast." And I was right. My mother's friends said, "Oh, she'll have a lumpectomy and radiation and be done with it." I didn't believe that either, and I was right. After two attempts to get clean …
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Elizabeth Edwards: Her Life, Politics, and Passions
… her treatment: four semiweekly rounds of chemotherapy, followed by a regimen of the cancer-slowing drug Taxol, then a lumpectomy and radiation. "They're putting stuff in your body that if it spilled in your house, you'd put on gloves to clean it …
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The Breast Cancer Nobody Is Talking About
… would not be part of her treatment. Neely's cancer was caught early, and after four cycles of chemotherapy followed by a lumpectomy and radiation, she is cancer-free. But she knows that her disease is more likely to return after two years than hormone …
