Fire ruled arson in Brooklyn, no toll hikes for NJ and more top stories from Wayne Cabot and Steve Scott.
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“…118 points to start the new book the 1000185. -- fifty mastectomy three higher. Ray -- and ten minutes. …”
A new type of reconstruction is giving new hope to survivors of breast cancer. But nearly 70 percent of women who have breast surgery do not opt for reconstruction, in part because they don't know of the new option. CBS 2's Dr. Max Gomez has more.
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“…on the outside all the skin in these new techniques. In a mastectomy are usually are left behind so there's an escape there to form a new breast but the pocket worthy of playing goes goes underneath the muscle and there's not enough space underneath there so they lift up a muscle and then this just use a little extra. Like I hammock or support that extends a tissue so let me -- can be placed under the -- will be as a much more natural look. Kind of supports the the important. But the skin is all there in most cases nowadays at all it's called skins -- mastectomy on the breast tissues taken on the skids less which is real happy to -- It's trying to have it all right …”
“…it can all be done at the same time as -- original mastectomy. . Very important for women like Suzanne solid. It would have been more traumatic to wake up and have no breath -- …”
In the battle against breast cancer, women face tough choices. A NYS study reveals the number of breast cancer survivors having a healthy breast removed to prevent the cancer from returning has more than doubled. CBS 2's Dr. Max Gomez has the story.
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“…much safer than before but the main reason women choose a preventive mastectomy is to take some measure of control. Experts say double mastectomy lowers the risk of cancer to this close to zero as possible. Colleen was not tested for the breast cancer genes because she had already decided to have a double mastectomy. . But she knows that her daughter and son should be tested because. They may have inherited mutations -- put them at risk …”
“…of another breast cancer. That's what led to -- have a double mastectomy surgically removing her cancerous breasts and her healthy breast. She also opted to begin breast reconstruction during the same procedure she did …”
Learning one person in your family has cancer can be devastating, but imagine the shock when four sisters are forced to battle breast cancer. That's the case for a family near Boston. CBS 2's Dr. Max Gomez tells us what we can learn from their story.
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“…who still have their pressing could have which called. -- bilateral prophylactic mastectomy removing both breasts even if there's no cancer in the about the moment in order at terminal cancer at the moment to …”
The CBS 2 Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure Special is a tribute to the women and men whose lives have been forever changed by breast cancer.
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“…Heather had to lumpectomy and then shows an aggressive route a bilateral mastectomy in June 2007. The shoulder to lean on got the same support from her ailing friend and what's more the size their …”
The CBS 2 Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure Special is a tribute to the women and men whose lives have been forever changed by breast cancer.
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“…Together they went through chemo radiation and two surgeries including a partial mastectomy. . And I says many in the Asian community keep their illnesses to themselves. But being open about her fight letter to the …”
The CBS 2 Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure Special is a tribute to the women and men whose lives have been forever changed by breast cancer.
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“…diagnosed with breast cancer exactly two years ago I had made double mastectomy a big surgery. Intensive chemotherapy. Reconstruction after the surgery. More surgery after that. Any of this but really resonates in my mind. …”
The CBS 2 Susan G. Komen Race For The Cure Special is a tribute to the women and men whose lives have been forever changed by breast cancer.
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“…The same was -- Vargas Tanzania who had three surgeries a mastectomy and a lumpectomy. My day. In just like the one Roxio is wearing the -- are made of real hair to -- …”
Pat Farnack talks with Geralyn Lucas, a cancer survivor involved in a program that helps women with cancer, and also author of the book, "Why I wore Lipstick to my Mastectomy ."
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“…survivor who also wrote the book why I wore lipstick to my mastectomy and love that title. So what tell us how does that look good feel better help women when they're going through cancer …”
“…a night Agnes staff. I put it -- morning in my mastectomy enabling effective December have helped me. Transferred me and the -- becoming -- woman I never that I can be met with …”
Listen to the full news conference and question-answer session with reporters. (Tuesday, June 23, 2009)
Audio|Tue, 23 Jun 2009|More from WCBS Eye On Politics
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“…where who introduced me up in Green -- 36 years old double mastectomy its breast cancer has now moved to her bones. And she's got two little kids a husband -- a job they had …”