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Breast Cancer Surgery Introduction, Insurance Information and Average Cost
Breast cancer is the second most common form of cancer worldwide and surgery is the most commonly recommended form of treatment. Generally speaking...

How to Find and Choose a Breast Cancer Surgeon Specialist
For most women, and even many men, the thought of undergoing breast cancer surgery is a delicate topic. It is also an area with a multitude...

Training, Location, Expertise - Finding an Oncologist
Once you discover that you have been diagnosed with cancer, seeking rapid and definitive treatment is critical to surviving and ultimately beating the...

How to Find and Choose an Oncologist - Cancer Surgery Specialist
‘Surgical oncologist’ is a somewhat slippery term. To begin with, operations to treat cancer are not only limited to surgical oncologists...

Obstetric and Gynecologic Surgery
Obstetric and gynecologic surgery refers to procedures that are performed to treat a variety of conditions affecting the female reproductive organs...

What Could Be Happening During Your Surgery
As surgical techniques advance in sophistication, there are a number of intraoperative procedures that could be taking place during your surgery....

What to Expect on the Day of Surgery
Surgery can be somewhat frightening even for the bravest among us. You are only partially clothed, everywhere you look people are dressed in masks...

The Pathology Report
While you will meet your surgeon and anesthesiologist before your surgery, there is one medical professional that will participate in your surgery...

What is a Pathologist?
As a field, surgery owes much of its progress to the field of anesthesiology. If patients could not be safely placed unconscious, surgeons would...

A Primer on Robotic Surgery
When people first hear the term robotic surgery it is hard not to imagine a robot plucked straight from a science fiction movie standing over a patient...

Mastectomy Recovery – Comprehensive Treatment
You are going to beat breast cancer. This horrible disease may knock you back for a moment, but it will not take you. You are a fighter and you will...

Recovering from a Mastectomy
Having a mastectomy is a bit different that most other surgeries. While dealing with cancer carries with it a host of emotions and fears, many women...

Cancer Research Information - Targeted Therapy
A relatively new avenue of cancer research is the use of “targeted therapies.” In contrast to traditional chemotherapy which uses drugs...

Types of Breast Biopsies
When a breast lump is detected, it is important to determine some things about it, most importantly, if the lump is cancerous. Some lumps are common...

Breast Cancer Treatment Options
As you might expect, the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer is very complex. There are dozens of different types, grades, and stages of breast...

Core Needle Biopsy - Evaluating a Possible Tumor
In order to provide a pathologist with a sample of a tumor, an interventional radiologist, oncologist, or surgeon will need to perform a biopsy....

Imaging Methods for the Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Once women reach a certain age, around 40 years old, they should receive a breast cancer screening mammogram every year. A mammogram uses X-ray radiation...

Types of Mastectomy Surgeries
While increased screening and early diagnosis has reduced the incidence of breast cancer in the United States, nearly 200,000 women will receive...

Treating Cancer - Radiation Oncology
Modern medicine provides several ways of treating cancer such as surgery, chemotherapy, and hormone therapy. One of the main ways to treat cancer is...

Genetic Testing
In 2003, scientists mapped the entire human genome, that is, identified the ~25,000 genes in our DNA that make people, people. This information has been...

Biopsy Types and Information
A biopsy is a procedure in which a small amount of tissue is removed from the body for further analysis. A biopsy may be its own procedure or be included...