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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