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2. Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act - Wikipedia

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   This law, which is administered by the Department of Labor and Health and Human Services, states that group health plans, insurance companies, and health maintenance organizations (HMOs) must provide coverage for reconstructive surgery after mastectomy for breast cancer and prohibited "drive-through" mastectomies, where breast cancer patient's ...

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

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   Kara Hennelly always took pride in staying active. In her 20s and 30s, she trained for and ran two half-marathons. In her 40s, as a busy pediatric emergency medicine physician in St. Louis and mom ...

4. Mastectomies Are Often A Go-To Surgery For Breast ... - AOL

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   But the researchers found that there was no survival advantage in having a double mastectomy. During the 20-year study period, 8.5 percent of women who had lumpectomies died from breast cancer ...

5. Chest reconstruction - Wikipedia

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   The removal of breast tissue in chest reconstruction is a type of mastectomy called a subcutaneous (under the skin) mastectomy. This type of mastectomy removes tissue from inside the breast (subcutaneous tissue), as well as excess skin. The surgeon then contours the chest, altering the size and position of the areolae and nipples as needed or ...

6. Breast cancer management - Wikipedia

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   Staging breast cancer is the initial step to help physicians determine the most appropriate course of treatment. As of 2016, guidelines incorporated biologic factors, such as tumor grade, cellular proliferation rate, estrogen and progesterone receptor expression, human epidermal growth factor 2 (HER2) expression, and gene expression profiling into the staging system.

7. Why Kathy Bates decided not to have reconstruction surgery ...

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   Kathy Bates is opening up about her decision to forgo reconstruction surgery after undergoing a double mastectomy following a 2012 breast cancer diagnosis.. The "Matlock" star, 76, explained on ...

8. Male breast cancer - Wikipedia

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   Men with breast cancer have an absolute risk of presenting with a second cancer in their other breast of 1.75, i.e. they have a 75% increase of developing a contralateral breast cancer over their lifetimes compared to men who develop a breast cancer without having had a prior breast cancer. [5]

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

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   In the days before Davina Gantz-Needle's double mastectomy, the 52-year-old Maryland resident spent time mentally preparing for the outcome, which she was certain she'd loathe. ... find they are ...