Breast reconstruction is necessary in cases when the breast or some part of the entirety is taken out due to disease, injury or trauma. Most, if not all, cases usually concern women who may have had cancer at this particular area a certain point in their life or have had an operation with which part of it or all of it has been removed. There are two basic approaches to this problem and these include flaps and implants.Implants: These have long...more
Are you concerned about undergoing boob surgery? It should make you feel at ease to learn that bosom augmentation surgeries have been performed and perfected over a hundred years ago. There were many failures, and discoveries made in the early days of boob surgery but so much has been learned and now over 300,000 surgeries are performed annually and thousands of women enjoy the physical and psychological benefits of successful breast...more
If you plan to get pregnant in the future and would like to feed your infant the natural way then it is helpful to know that breast feeding is something you will still be able to do following a cosmetic procedure. To what extent you will be able to breast feed is dependent upon the kind of operation you had.Of all of the breast surgeries, reduction affects the lactation of the mother's glands the most. However having an augmentation, lift, a nipple surgery or diagnostic surgery can lessen the percentage of milk a new mom is able to produce.There are a variety of factors that affect how much milk a woman can make following reduction or other type of nipple operations. The shape of the nerves plays a vital role as does the condition that her milk ducts are in. The good news is that both the nerves and the ducts are able to regenerate by way of processes known as recanalization and reinnervation.It is important to remember why a reduction mammoplasty is done in the first place. The patient of such a procedure will desire to have her nipple and her areola raised to a higher position on the bosom-one that is more pleasing to her overall appearance.In this case excess skin may have to be...more
ClassificationThe accepted form of Breast Cancer classification divides all the different forms of breast cancer into four distinct groups, viz. pathology, the particular grade of the tumour, the expression (by which information from a gene is used in the synthesis of a gene product, such as a protein) of proteins and genes, and the stage at which...more
Getting cancer is very common nowadays. It may be a loved one, a relative or your next door neighbour, who has got cancer and is now desperately trying to find a cancer cure. Finding a cure when one is already diagnosed with cancer is definitely more difficult and nerve wrenching than adopting good cancer prevention habits in the first place....more
There is no known cure for breast cancer. More than 1.5 million people will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year worldwide. Scientists don't know why most women get breast cancer, yet breast cancer is the most frequent tumor found in women the world over. A woman who dies of breast cancer is robbed of an average of nearly 20 years of her life. Breast cancer knows no social boundaries. It's a disease that can affect anyone. Some prominent women who's lives that have been touched by breast cancer include Jill Eikenberry actress age 52; Peggy Fleming age 49 figure skater; Kate Jackson age 50 (Charlies Angels); Olivia Newton-John age 50 actress singer; Nancy Reagan age 77 former first lady; Melissa Etheridge age 43 singer; and the beautiful Suzanne Summers actress. These high rates of breast cancer are not acceptable to the women of the world and must be met with scientific research that provides results.Despite over a decade of research, and more than $1.7 billion spent, hundreds of women worldwide are dying from breast cancer every day. Yet doctors don't know how breast cancer starts or how to cure it. Doctors are still approaching treatment for breast cancer in the same old...more
Several lung cancer treatments are currently available and the determination as to which one is prescribed depends on the lung cancer stage that has been diagnosed, the location of the cancer, and the patient's health. The most common treatments for...more
Lung Cancer PreventionDid you realize that approximately 10% of lung cancer patients have never in their lives smoked cigarettes? When asked about lung cancer prevention, most people will tell you that the easiest way to prevent lung cancer is to...more
Once a diagnosis of lung cancer has been made, the doctor will attempt to determine the stage the lung cancer is at. The staging system is somewhat like a measurement system, with the numbers indicating: whether the cancerous tumors are localized or...more
Abnormal cell growth in either one or both of the lungs is the simple answer to the question, "What is lung cancer?" In healthy individuals, the cells within the lungs go about their business duplicating at a normal rate and turning into more and...more
Cancer is a very deadly disease. This disease is one of the most deadly in terms of numbers killed year in and out. According to statistics one in three people will be affected by cancer. And one in four people will die of cancer. However cancer...more
When I went shopping the other day at the local store, I was taken in by the hair coloring of the clerk. It was beautiful , with a dark base and a natural -looking streaks, just as if the sun touched only her alone. I told her this and we promptly...more