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Types of Breast SurgeryVideos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeYucz5oNZo Dr. Xiaoti Xu, Plastic Surgeon, Mia Aesthetics with West Kendall Baptist Hospital, says breast reconstruction is about rebuilding the breast after suffering from cancer and trying to give them what they had before as possible. He also explains a breast augmentation is purely cosmetic surgery, and it is to enhance the way you look, [...]

Types of Breast Surgery

Learning About Breast MilkVideos

Carey Acosta, Lactation Consultant with Homestead Hospital says some of the benefits of breast feeding for a mom are lowering the risk of diabetes and heart disease, and lowering the risk of breast, ovarian and uterine cancer. She also affirms it can also lower the risk of osteoporosis and Alzheimer. But the best benefit of […]

Learning About Breast Milk

Why do women get a preventive mastectomy?Ask Hanna

Preventive mastectomy, done to reduce the risk of developing breast cancer, involves the surgical removal of one or both breasts. This procedure, also called prophylactic mastectomy, was in the news recently when actress Angelina Jolie announced her decision to undergo the procedure. Women with certain risk factors are much more likely to develop breast cancer […]

Why do women get a preventive mastectomy?

Why should I stop smoking?Ask Hanna

The percentage of US adults who smoke cigarettes has been decreasing over the past several decades. In 1965 approximately 42% of adults smoked cigarettes as compared to 18% today. In spite of warnings regarding health risks associated with smoking, however, nearly 42 million adults and over 3.5 million middle and high school students continue to […]

Why should I stop smoking?

What is the best type of screening for breast cancer?Ask Hanna

Two of the leading organizations issuing guidelines for cancer screening, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) and the American Cancer Society (ACS), have separately made recommendations for the early detection of breast cancer. In both cases, data from current research was analyzed and compiled to develop their recommendations. Not surprisingly, when analyzing complicated […]

What is the best type of screening for breast cancer?

What are the risk factors for Breast Cancer?Ask Hanna

A risk factor is anything that affects your chance of getting a disease such as cancer. Some of these risk factors can be modified, while some can’t be changed. For example, even though breast cancer does occur in males, being a woman is its biggest risk factor since breast cancer is about 100 times more […]

What are the risk factors for Breast Cancer?

What are some things I can do to lower my risk of Breast Cancer?Ask Hanna

Last article we looked at several factors that increased a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer but could not be changed. The purpose of this was to encourage women at increased risk to receive screening measures beyond those developed for women at average risk. Today we’ll look at a number of factors that increase the […]

What are some things I can do to lower my risk of Breast Cancer?

What is fibrocystic breasts disease?Ask Hanna

Whether called fibrocystic breast “changes” or fibrocystic breast “disease”, it’s a problem that affects up to half of all women at some point during their lives. Currently, most doctors just refer to women as having fibrocystic breasts, since it really isn’t a disease at all. Fibrocystic breasts are lumpy, thick, and tender, especially right before […]