Do you know a breast cancer survivor who chose for or against reconstructive breast surgery?
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Between 30% and 40% of breast surgery and radiotherapy patients are affected to some degree by lymphoedema.
British Labour MEP Linda McAvan used her speech to raise concerns about the "pressure" women faced from the industry to undergo breast surgery.
The existing urology service will have a major expansion, while breast surgery will cater for an increasing number of patients from Swansea.
Trust Medical Director Mr Robert Courteney-Harris insisted breast surgery services were safe.
While breast surgery patients are seen in less than a month, patients waiting for a pain management appointment can expect to wait years.
Olga Oleynik said that she has had breast surgery to balance the proportion with her hips because she is all about harmony and perfection.
Spanish plastic surgeon Hugo Guidotti Russo wanted Google to liposuction from his results a 1991 news article about a patient angry about an allegedly botched breast surgery.
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Sir Bruce also said cosmetic surgery deals, such as buy-one-get-one-free offers and handing out free breast surgery as prizes in raffles, were a "particularly distasteful" way of incentivising people to go under the knife.
That's actually pretty common, according to a survey from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, which found that out of every 10 women who qualify for reconstructive breast surgery, only three are fully informed of their options.
According to Dr. Richard Chaffoo, a San Diego-based plastic surgeon with experience in the area, reconstructive breast surgery is more complicated than purely aesthetic surgery of the breast and is associated with more surgical procedures and subsequent complications.
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Only those who have medically recognised qualifications and training and should carry out cosmetic procedures, such as breast surgery, liposuction and Botox treatment, and in a registered clinic with resuscitation equipment on hand in the event of an emergency, it recommends.
"Those who diagnose breast cancer and those who do mastectomy are separate from the plastic surgeons who do the reconstruction, " explains Dr. Frank DellaCroce, a surgeon at the Center for Restorative Breast Surgery in New Orleans, Louisiana, the place where Anderson's breast reconstruction was performed.
She was a cosmetic and reconstructive surgeon who had performed breast reconstruction surgery for numerous cancer patients.
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But according to a new study very few of them will opt for breast reconstruction surgery after treatment.
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"It's increasing our range of motion, decreasing our pain that we have after breast cancer surgery and increasing our strength, " Binkley said.
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However, they did find that women undergoing breast enhancement surgery were running extra risks - but mainly associated with the operation itself.
However several of you got in touch to say that you too had waited a long time for radiotherapy after breast cancer surgery.
The court heard that Mr Doyle and Ms Rees argued at their property after he had turned up late and drunk to collect her from hospital after she had breast cancer surgery.
Professor David Sharpe, a consultant plastic surgeon based at Bradford Royal Infirmary, said he had failed to persuade medical insurance companies to pay for breast reduction surgery even in cases where it was obvious that the patient required the operation on medical grounds.
Two weeks later, she had major surgery where the breast tissue was removed and temporary fillers were put in place.
Collins, a 20-year-old sophomore at Boston's Emerson College, learned soon after he joined the Phi Alpha Tau fraternity that his insurance company declined to cover surgery to remove breast tissue to flatten his chest.
Last week the BBC revealed how breast cancer patients who had surgery were waiting up to 15 weeks for radiotherapy in Inverness, and that hundreds of people were waiting up to six months for a scan to detect osteoporosis at a clinic in Aberdeen.
Oh, did I mention my wife was just diagnosed with breast cancer and is scheduled for surgery in September?
And the surgery left my left breast considerably smaller than the other.
Allergan also sells implants used in breast augmentation and weight-loss surgery.
With its announcement last night that a trial using Herceptin to prevent breast cancer from coming back after surgery was halted two years early because the drug was extending patients' lives, biotech investors and executives alike are focusing on Genentech's (nyse: DNA - news - people ) South San Francisco campus to try to unravel the company's secret.
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