Breast Cancer Treatment Strategy II: No Midnight Snacks

Posted on May 11, 2016 by John Kehoe |

Breast cancer patients have enough to consider without being confused by claims of improved outcomes of their breast cancer if only they….now fast at night at least thirteen hours. In a recent study early stage breast cancer recurrences were significantly reduced if you fasted at night for at least thirteen hours, which seems to be the magical time span. I’ll bet you didn’t know that. Neither did I. No doubt, a portion of early stage breast cancer patients who have…

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Breast Cancer and the Lives of Husbands, Boyfriends, Fathers and Sons….

Posted on April 6, 2016 by John Kehoe |

Breast Cancer and the lives of Husbands, Boyfriends, Fathers and Sons…. A breast cancer diagnosis creates fear, anxiety, and turmoil in a woman’s life. Understandably so. Less understood is how a breast cancer diagnosis impacts the lives of the men that surround her. I am sharing (with permission) a handwritten note I received from the husband of a patient I treated. It is not often in the internet/email age that one is sent a handwritten note, especially from a man:…

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The Youth Movement: Women In Danger

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Sarah Young |

I guess nobody could have scripted this…..two young patients with big problems coming into my office within minutes of each other. Just one of those days. The first had a bad cancer. Everyone who saw her in different disciplines (medical oncology, radiation oncology, other surgeons) had the same uneasy feeling in treating her. A pregnancy had complicated her treatment. Out of this very depressing episode came a beautiful child that the patient brought in a few visits back. She had…

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Surgical Treatment of Breast Cancer: Less Is More

Posted on March 22, 2016 by John Kehoe |

Survival from breast cancer continues to improve. This is great news and comes to us from multiple sources. At the same time, we do smaller, less disfiguring operations than we used to do. Breast cancer attacks a part of the body with tremendous aesthetic and emotional importance. The very mentioning of the condition has evoked in the past (and still today) dire responses from patients and doctors. So without the benefit of modern, smart weaponry and with an earlier, crude…

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New Mammography Guidelines to Detect Breast Cancer and the Kitchen Sink

Posted on March 7, 2016 by Sarah Young |

Aggressive use of mammography has been one of mainstays in diagnosing breast cancer and improving breast cancer survival rates. Over the years we have thrown everything but the kitchen sink at the breast cancer problem. We are getting closer and closer to real success. Now is not the time to step back. Now is the time to throw everything at the breast cancer problem, including the kitchen sink. Which is why the recommendations of the American Cancer Society (ACS) and…

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Breast Cancer and Depression

Posted on February 29, 2016 by Sarah Young |

The stories of cancer patients are always interesting to me. For some it is a mighty life and death struggle worthy of the bravery seen in many of the mythological struggles that fill our literary traditions. What cancer patients go through should be inspiration for all of us confronting the disorders of life. We all have heroes in our lives. In my position I have many heroes (heroines)—all my patients who have had to confront a breast cancer diagnosis, its…

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