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Breast Cancer and Prosthetics: Know Your Options
#FeatureFriday When you are diagnosed with breast cancer you are confronted with many overwhelming choices, often without much time to...
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Going Flat and Explant Surgery
#FeatureFriday Within Breast Cancer Awareness Month throughout October, there are several specific awareness days. Yesterday, October...
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Five Simple Yoga Stretches to Regain Mobility After Your Mastectomy
By Guest Blogger, Amy Hardwick What if you could begin to regain your range of motion in just five minutes a day? Have you been cleared...
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My Body Was Telling Me Something Was Wrong
Meet Sonja, Diagnosed With Stage 3 Breast Cancer At 35 My name is Sonja, and I am 36 years old. A year ago last summer, I began having...
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3D Areola Tattoo: Everything You Need To Know
By Liana Reznik Everyone’s journey to a nipple tattoo is different. While some feel comfortable without having the areola and nipple...
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Best Questions To Ask Your Breast Surgeon
What questions should you ask your breast cancer surgeon? Preparing for your first appointment with your breast surgeon is an exciting...
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Informed Decision Making About Going Flat
By Devorah Borenstein My breast cancer diagnosis wasn’t what I imagined. Indeed, this is a very common experience. We all assume we won’t...
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Aesthetic Flat Closure and Flat Denial
By Kim Bowles President & Founder, NotPuttingonaShirt.org Every year, 250,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the United...
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A Call for Self-Advocacy
I hope to be a voice that abolishes the misconception that breast cancer can’t happen to young women.
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Breast Surgery Augmentation vs. Amputation
As we navigate our treatments there are some well-meaning people who will refer to our breast surgery as a “boob job” or they’ll comment on
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DIEP Flap Results
The Mayo plastic surgeons explained many options to me which included a spacer to stretch the skin then replace with implant, DIEP-flap reco
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What To Expect After Breast Cancer Surgery: My Post-Op Reflections
I wish someone would have told me that I was going to feel this good after surgery! First off, I am just so relieved that I woke up from...
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