In 1998, then President Bill Clinton signed into the law the Women’s Health and Cancer Reconstruction Act (WHCRA). The intention of this bill was to ensure than patients who underwent mastectomy for the treatment of breast cancer would be able to have access to reconstruction through their insurance plans. Previously, many insurances did not cover… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: Breast Reconstruction
Silicone or Saline? Which to choose for Breast Augmentation surgery?
There are many important decisions that you have to make with your plastic surgeon before you undergo breast augmentation surgery. Your desired size, nipple position, and the surgical approach which will be used must all be discussed at length in order to create a plan that will result in your desired aesthetic result. One of… Continue Reading
Insulin and IGF and the Cancer Link
Persistently high levels of insulin, stimulated by high levels of carbohydrate intake are responsible for a lot of things, which include obesity and diabetes, but would you believe cancer is also one of those things? That’s right, cancer. Most people consider cancer to be a disease of genetic bad luck or persistently bad behaviors like… Continue Reading
Breast Cancer Surgery: Overview of Types of Reconstruction after Total Mastectomy
Discussing breast cancer would be simply too much to discuss in one blog entry, so I have decided to organize it in terms of general overviews, choices, and detailed explanation of specific topics. Please search under the categories section of this blog for selected topics as they become available. Today, we will be talking about… Continue Reading