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2. Working Out After A Mastectomy Can Help Patients Heal ... - AOL

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   There isn't a lot of guidance around how to exercise after a mastectomy. Here's what doctors and trainers advise post-surgery and during breast cancer recovery.

3. These breast cancer survivors are happier than ever post ...

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   Plenty of women don't miss their breasts after surgery — despite the warnings so often coming from breast surgeons society at large: that a life without breasts is one of disfigurement, bereft ...

4. Christina Applegate opens up about life after double mastectomy

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   Christina Applegate was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008, and she opted to have a double mastectomy later in the year. Now, she's opening up to ET about how she's coping with life after the ...

5. Breast reconstruction - Wikipedia

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   This can be instrumental in restoring the psychological well-being of the breast cancer survivor. The same process can be used to replicate the remaining nipple in cases of a single mastectomy. Ideally, a prosthesis is made around the time of the mastectomy and it can be used just weeks after the surgery. [23]

6. Post-mastectomy pain syndrome - Wikipedia

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   Post-mastectomy pain syndrome is a chronic neuropathic pain that usually manifests as continuous pain in the arm, axilla, chest wall, and breast region. [3] Pain is most likely to start after surgery, [3] although adjuvant therapy, such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy, may sometimes cause new symptoms to appear. [4]

7. Breast surgery - Wikipedia

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   The combined effects of radiation and breast cancer surgery can in particular lead to complications such as breast fibrosis, secondary lymphoedema (which may occur in the arm, the breast or the chest, in particular after axillary lymph node dissection [5] [6]), breast asymmetry, and chronic/recurrent breast cellulitis, each of these having long ...

8. Country star Morgan Wade details recovery from double ... - AOL

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   The 29-year-old country singer underwent "proactive" double mastectomy surgery after discovering she had the RAD51D gene mutation, placing her at higher risk for developing cancer.

9. Nipple prosthesis - Wikipedia

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   Following a mastectomy, body image is more positive with reconstruction. [8] Breast reconstruction alone falls short of its restorative potential. The nipple-areolar complex (NAC) is extremely important to women, which is why so many women would like a nipple-sparing mastectomy even though the nipple renders insensate after surgery. Nipple ...