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Mastectomy Is No Disability, Court Rules
A South Korean court has ordered the military to reinstate a female helicopter pilot who was bounced from her job after she had a double mastectomy to treat breast cancer. Regulations require personnel...
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Double Mastectomies on the Rise
More women are choosing to have double mastectomies despite a lack of evidence that such a procedure increases survival for most women, according to a study in the Journal of Oncology . The number of...
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More Women Electing Extra Cancer Surgery
More women are going to extremes after a breast cancer diagnosis, opting for double mastectomies instead of single ones or mere lumpectomies, the Washington Post reports. The number rose 150% over 5...
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Facebook Boobs Bungle Breast Rules Again
Facebook executives have again bungled rules banning breasts on the site, this time concerning cancer surgery. Facebook bans "sexual content" and bounced photos a cancer patient posted of her...
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Team to Launch Tests to Regrow Breasts
Australian scientists are about to launch tests of a new medical technique that they expect will help cancer victims regrow their own breasts and will eventually replace reconstructive surgery. The...
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Govt. Panel Recommends Fewer Mammograms
Most women can wait to get their first mammogram at 50 and then should get one every 2 years rather than annually, a powerful health policy group said today. New information led to the recommendations,...
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Cancer Patients Removing Healthy Breasts, Too
More and more women diagnosed with breast cancer are choosing to have their healthy breast removed along with the cancerous one. In 2006, 6% of women undergoing breast cancer surgery opted for such a...
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Woman Gets $198K for Mastectomies She Didn't Need
A California woman who underwent a double mastectomy and later discovered she didn't have breast cancer will be paid $198,000 after winning a medical malpractice lawsuit. Ana Jimenez-Salgado had her...
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Giuliana Rancic: I'm Getting a Double Mastectomy
Less than two months after undergoing a double lumpectomy, breast cancer battler and E! host Giuliana Rancic announced she will go back under the knife for a double mastectomy. She went public in part...
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Sharon Osbourne: I Had a Double Mastectomy
Sharon Osbourne has had a double mastectomy as a precaution against breast cancer, she reveals in today's issue of Hello! magazine. The 60-year-old had the procedure after learning she has a gene...
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Mastectomy Can Actually Lower Chance of Surviving
You may think a mastectomy is a safer bet than a lumpectomy for those diagnosed with breast cancer. But a new study of more than 100,000 women with the disease finds that for those who catch it in its...
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CNN's Sambolin Plans Double Mastectomy
On the heels of Angelina Jolie's revelation about her double mastectomy , CNN anchor Zoraida Sambolin—of Early Start —has announced she'll also undergo the procedure. "I struggled for weeks trying to...
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Brad Pitt: Angelina Is a Hero
Brad Pitt, who was with Angelina Jolie when she had her preventative double mastectomy , tells the Evening Standard he stands fully behind her decision. "Having witnessed this decision firsthand, I...
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What's Best for Angelina May Not Be Best for You
There's no question that Angelina Jolie made a courageous move in undergoing a double mastectomy . But in the applause for her decision, it's important to keep the cancer conversation in context,...
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Inside Angelina Jolie's Treatment
Angelina Jolie was back at work just days after her double mastectomy, Dr. Kristi Funk reveals in a blog post about the star's medical journey. "To a large extent, I believe recovery reflects...
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Jolie's Best Message Applies to All Women
Stories about the victimization of women have been so prevalent of late—from the rising number of assaults in the military to the awful Cleveland case —that Anne Taylor Fleming has been both disgusted...
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ABC Anchor's on-Air Mammogram Finds Cancer
It's a scene that has played out onscreen many times: A beloved TV journalist gets a standard medical test on a popular show, in an effort to convince viewers of a certain age to do the same. But this...
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Are Thousands of Women Getting Unnecessary Mastectomies?
An increasing number of women may be getting one or both breasts removed following a certain early stage breast cancer diagnosis without actually decreasing their odds of dying from the disease, the...
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Double Mastectomies on the Rise—Among Men
Nearly 2,500 men in the United States are expected to be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. And Live Science reports researchers are worried too many of them will opt to have both breasts removed...
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Tumors Require Boy, 11, to Undergo Mastectomy
After Lewis Deakin, an 11-year-old boy in the United Kingdom, had several benign tumors grow in the arteries of his chest thanks to a condition called arteriovenous malformation, he became the first...
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