Young women at hereditary risk of breast cancer may be making hasty choices about treatment, without fully considering their options, according to a visiting US expert. Dr Mark Robson, from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, claimed today (11/11) that young women identified at being at risk because they carried a gene mutation, such ...
Plastic surgeons treating patients faced with the difficult decision of reconstructive surgery after mastectomy now have access to breakthrough treatment options with Cook Medical’s Biodesign® Tissue Generation Matrix and Biodesign Nipple Reconstruction Cylinder. Designed to signal the body to encourage rapid tissue remodeling, the Biodesign grafts strike a critical balance of strength and flexibility that ...
Oncoplastic Breast Surgery: A Guide to Clinical Practice. This teaching atlas is designed for breast surgeons specialized in breast cancer therapy including general surgeons, gynecologists and plastic/reconstructive surgeons. It contains more than 400 high quality photos and illustrations and step-by-step lectures from experienced and well known surgeons in Europe and the US. Its first part ...
Adding expensive MRI scans to diagnose breast cancer won’t budge rates of repeat operations or the need for further mastectomy procedures, a new British study suggests. The COMICE study, published in the Feb. 12 issue of The Lancet, randomly assigned 1,623 women,18 years or older, who had primary breast cancer to have either an MRI ...
