French health authorities on Friday recommended that the 30,000 women who received potentially defective breast implants have them removed.
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Suspect Breast Implants Removal Recommended by France
Every weekday, nurse Jill Ross telephones some of her sickest patients. On this particular morning, she is asking breast cancer patient Renita Mock when her double mastectomy is scheduled. The conversation quickly veers to Mock’s stress over the operation. As someone with diabetes , hypertension and a host of other illnesses, Mock, 52, is considered too high-risk for reconstructive surgery, and she’s struggling with the prospect of losing her breasts. She asks for help in finding a therapist. Read full article > >
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New Maryland health program promotes care for the whole patient
A device meant to shield healthy tissue from radiation during surgery for breast cancer left hundreds of tiny particles of the heavy metal tungsten inside dozens of patients.
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Riddled With Metal by Mistake in a Study
Doctors say a needle biopsy is safer, less invasive and cheaper, and estimate that more than 300,000 women a year are having unnecessary surgery.
The Food and Drug Administration said that 60 cases of anaplastic large-cell lymphoma had been reported in women with breast implants.
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Implants Linked to Rare Lymphoma
The Food and Drug Administration said in a statement that it planned to rescind Avastin’s accelerated approval for the treatment of breast tumors.
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F.D.A. Bars Use of Avastin to Treat Breast Cancer
What message are girls really getting from breast-cancer activism?
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The Way We Live Now: Think About Pink
Hormone replacement therapy after menopause, which increases breast cancer risk, also makes the cancer worse.
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Hormone Therapy Raises Cancer Risks, Study Finds
Women who have gene mutations that increase the risk of breast and ovarian cancer can substantially reduce their chances of developing — and dying from — those cancers if they have their breasts or ovaries removed preemptively, according to a new study.
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Breast, ovary removal cuts cancer risk
New Maryland health program promotes care for the whole patient
Monday, November 14th, 2011
