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Article 1:Calculating Your Breast Cancer Risk |
This article deals with evaluating your own personal
risk for developing breast cancer, including how it is
done, and how it helps you. Future articles will deal with
the options that are available to help you manage and
even reduce your risk. These include the use of
ultrasound exams, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI),
ductal lavage, and genetic testing.
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Article 2:Managing your Breast Cancer Risk |
In this article we discuss how knowing your statistical
risk enables you to utilize "selective screening" and other
risk management strategies which include not only
increased surveillance, but also chemoprevention, and
prophylactic surgery. Women who are at high risk should
increase cancer surveillance. One basic intervention is
two care-giver exams per year instead of one. This was
discussed briefly in the last article.
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Article 3:Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer |
This issue's article involves genetic testing, what it is, how it is done, how it helps in
decision making, and which women benefit by it. The Breast Cancer Surgery Center has a
certified Cancer Risk Educator qualified to counsel and test women for genetic mutations which
affect the risk of breast and ovarian cancer, both of great concern to women.
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Article 4:Using Ductal Lavage to Stratify Risk |
This article deals with the promising new technique entitled nipple aspiration and ductal lavage (NADL). This new, but not experimental, technique shows promise for further characterizing women's risks so that selective screening can become even more precise.
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Article 5:Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer |
This article deals with the role of radiation
therapy in the treatment of breast cancer. In
the past few years, the delivery of radiation has
seen a revival in the technique of partial breast
irradiation. This allows radiation to be
completed in 5-7 days rather than 25-30 days.
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Article 6:A Center for Breast Care Excellence |
What is a Center anyway? Is it a building, an
attachment to a big hospital, or a commitment to patients
with a particular illness and the resources to deal with all
aspects of their care? We have been committed to the
care of patients with breast cancer for over 30 years.
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