New Breast Cancer Procedure Leaves Breast Intact
New Breast Cancer Procedure Leaves Breast Intact
For women diagnosed with breast cancer, they're often left with few options when it comes to treatment. For years, women who underwent mastectomies were left scarred.
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" I was 33 years old when I was diagnosed and to say that it with a shock is putting it lightly. Laura Scott says she wasn't conscientious about doing breast self exams so she had no idea what possessed you to do on that fateful day in May of 2010. But that's the day she found a lump in her breast later it was diagnosed at stage one invasive breast cancer. Never that I -- particularly at this age that I would be dealing with facts a serious disease because the now 35 year old mother of two caught -- so early her prognosis was good. But because she was so -- her chance of recurrence was high. So she wanted to have the most aggressive type of treatment of bilateral mastectomy and I had no idea what I would look like afterwards. And that was incredibly scary her plastic surgeon. Doctor Scott spear felt she was a good candidate for a newer type of procedure called a nipple staring mastectomy."
" And we just take on the breast tissue and leave all the visible skin and nipple alone. So it's a little bit like other advances in surgery like laparoscopic surgery."
" Doctor spears says that most doctors have been reluctant to perform this type of surgery in the past. For fear that there could be some cancer cells hidden in the tissue behind the nipple. But new research is finding that the procedure is safe and effective. In a new study authored by spear doctors looked at a 162. Surgeries performed since 1989. He found that there have been no cancer recurrence is in the left over breast tissue in any of those cases."
" It encourages people to treat their breast cancer. Affirmatively and aggressively because you can come out the other end being OK physically."
" And I will never forget you know coming out of surgery and then. The nurse says you need to look and I didn't want to ring and she sent me really happy to and I can't end. It was the most amazing feeling because. I looked normal."
" Laura Scott says minus a few scars most people would never know that she's had a mastectomy and that's a comfort after dealing with the trauma of cancer."
" The end of the day when the king must turn with a -- radiation -- you're going to look normal again. As a breast cancer patient -- Thanks -- telling you why is he wanted to look normal."
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