OAN: Every year roughly 170,000 breast cancer patients in the U.S. will undergo surgery to remove cancerous tissues. As many as 20 percent of these patients will have a second surgery known as re-excision to remove lingering malignant cells. However, new technology aimed at helping doctors and patients obtain clean margins in a single surgery and prevent re-excision is gaining attention.
One America’s Stephanie Myers caught up with Roshni Rao, chief of the breast surgery program at the New York Presbyterian Columbia University Irving Medical Center, to discuss this further.
You wont get that type of research from Canadian Health Care.
MAGA
Every bit of the money pissed away on AIDS research would have been better been spent on cancer
I wish they’d improve the boob squish mammograms too-10 minutes of archaic torture and awkwardness.
My wife threw out my ancient t-shirt that said
FREE MAMMOGRAMS
Board-Certified Oral Gynecologist With Hands-On Experience!
No respect. No respect at all!
I hope advancements give more women more time with their children. My mother was in remission for a couple years and decided on reconstructive surgery after a double mastectomy. She was dead a few months later. Played over 100 rounds of golf the same year she died. It all happened too fast at 43 years old. RIP.
….weirdest thing that ever happened to me was when my wife got a lumpectomy, and she had some complications with an expanding mass developing at, as usual, o-dark-early in the morning.
So pray up, mount up, and off to the nearest hospital we go.
Hospitals weren’t QUITE to Obama care staffing levels at the time, but “nearest appropriate” in this case turned out to be pretty close. We got one tired lady doc and, strangely, no other staffing was in evidence.
As the doc did the exam, she asked my wife if she wanted me in the room as it could be unattractive and possibly gory, and she responded by telling the doc that I wasn’t a stranger to blood or hospitals, which probably set the stage for what happened next.
The doc poked and prodded and pulled at the incision, which unexpectedly responded by tearing open, disgorging a partly formed blood clot and copious amounts of blood in the process. The doc was understandably concerned with this and wanted to get something, but with no assistant had to get it herself, so she had ME wash and jam my hand inside the incision to staunch the bleeding until she got her supplies to close it professionally, leaving me as one of the (hopefully) few men to know what his wife’s chest wall UNDER her breast feels like, a level of intimacy I had frankly not hitherto contemplated, and one of the few I have no desire to repeat.
…anyway,doc got all computerized and sewn and under control after that, and thank God no infection, thank God no SEVERE blood loss and…wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry about this one…the lab later said the whole thing was kind of unnecessary, since the lump that HAD the -ectomy was a benign mass that was no threat at all, but thank God most of all for THAT.
Although, given that she has a family history of breast cancer, lost several family members to it, and my mother-in-law had a cancerous mass removed from hers, I wouldn’t take the chance, then or now, and would encourage other ladies do the same.
Breast cancer is nothing to play with. Check ’em, take care of ’em, and let us love ’em for a long time to come.
…and, gals, your guy can HELP with the inspections, if you don’t let him head to points South too soon and don’t believe there is an inspection regimen involving the tongue…
It’s always great to see these kinds of breakthroughs, which are saving the likes of Rush Limbaugh’s life.