WHAT ARE THE 3 TYPES OF BREAST CANCER STAGE GROUPS?
Clinical Prognostic Stage is used first to assign a stage for all patients based on health history, physical exam, imaging tests (if done), and biopsies… Pathological Prognostic Stage is then used for patients who have surgery as their first treatment… Anatomic Stage is based on the size and the spread of cancer as described by the TNM system…
HOW DO YOU GET DIAGNOSED FOR BREAST CANCER?
Breast ultrasound. A machine that uses sound waves to make pictures, called, sonograms, of areas inside the breast…
HOW IS A MAMMOGRAM DONE? 
…A technologist will place your breast on a plastic plate. Another plate will firmly press your breast from above. The plates will flatten the breast, holding it still while the X-ray is being taken…
WHAT ARE THE FACTORS THAT DETERMINE WHAT BREAST CANCER SURGERY WILL BE BEST FOR YOU?
…the size of your cancer, where the cancer is in your breast, whether there is more than one area of cancer, the size of your breasts, your general health…
WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF NIPPLE RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY?
…having a nipple tattoo, having a nipple made from your own body tissue, using a stick on nipple…
WHAT IS BODY TISSUE RECONSTUCTION WITH BACK TISSUE?
…This type of reconstruction is a simpler operation than an abdominal flap (TRAM or DIEP flaps) and so recovery may be quicker and easier. Unlike the most common type of abdominal flap, this reconstruction keeps its original blood supply…
WHAT IS BODY TISSUE RECONSTRUCTION WITH ABDOMINAL TISSUE?
The rectus abdominis muscle is in your abdomen and runs from your breastbone to your pubic bone. For a TRAM flap reconstruction, the surgeon takes part of this muscle, with its skin, fat, and blood vessels. They move it to your chest wall to make a new breast…
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS AND DISADVANTAGES OF BODY TISSUE RECONSTRUCTION SURGERY?
With this operation, your surgeon takes skin, fat, and sometimes muscle (a flap) from another part of your body and makes it into a breast shape…
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS AND DISADVANTAGES OF IMPANT BREAST RECONSTRUCTION?
This operation means that you have a silicone gel or salt water filled silicone balloon to recreate a breast shape after removal of a breast…
WHAT EXERCISES SHOULD YOU DO AFTER A MASTECTOMY OR BREAST CONSERVING SUGERY?
…simple arm exercises can help to: keep your movement full in your arm and shoulder, relieve pain and stiffness, reduce swelling
