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Feeling Like New After Mastectomy – CURE Magazine

Most who undergo mastectomy lose feeling in their chests, but microsurgeons can now restore sensation by connecting nerves during tissue-based reconstruction.

Surgeons discussing reconstruction after mastectomy usually focus on the size and shape of the new breast and how to make something that looks as normal as possible. But what about making something that feels like it did before, and not just on the outside?

Almost all women who have a mastectomy lose sensation in their chest, many of them forever. Dr. ...

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Stay Close – Cancer Today Magazine

Participants in Airbnb’s Open Homes program help nonprofit organizations to provide temporary lodging for cancer patients.

WHEN KAROL HANSEN WAS DIAGNOSED ​​with metastatic breast cancer in April 2019, her doctors recommended simultaneous radiation and chemotherapy treatments daily for a period of six weeks to address her fast-growing tumors. To Hansen, driving 110 miles from her home in Temecula, California, to her oncologist’s office at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center didn’t seem realistic.

Hansen reached out to Cancer Support Community ...

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Looking at Physical Therapy Holistically – APTA Magazine

Dan Rhon, PT, DSc, says the need to treat the whole patient extends far beyond the patient’s health.

“The Army’s surgeon general has determined that this is a matter of national security, because if you look at current trends, by the year 2030 we will not have a fit enough society to serve in our military and all of our community positions such as police officers and fire fighters,” Rhon observes. “These jobs all require some sort of physical and health ...

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PTs on Rehab’s Leading Edge: Regenerative Medicine, Robotics, and Genomics – PT in Motion Magazine

Corey Kunzer, PT, DPT, often sees patients who’ve had certain regenerative medicine procedures. He describes the process as helping the body heal itself.

“It’s like with a paper cut,” Kunzer says. “If a person gets a cut, his or her body creates a scab, and, as the scab is working, the skin and tissue below it heals. That’s what regenerative medicine is. It’s priming the body to heal itself.” Kunzer, a board-certified clinical specialist in sports physical therapy, is coordinator of ...

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Proton Beams Destroy Brain Tumors and Give Kids a Chance – The Seattle Times

Gabe knows what it takes to win a car race: he has to have a powerful car, and he has to drive it with forethought and precision. He’s a race winner, after all. He knows that this combination of power and precision also helped him defeat cancer, after he was diagnosed with anaplastic astrocytoma, a brain tumor, when he was 11. While brain tumors are rarely diagnosed in children, they are the most common form of solid tumors found ...

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Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Survivor Talks About CAR T-Cell Therapy That Saved Her Life – HealthCentral

Emily Dumler, mother of three, found blood in her stool one day in August of 2013, called her doctor, and went to urgent care. She wound up being immediately admitted to the hospital with an extremely low blood platelet count, and only obtained her diagnosis of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after a stay of 43 days. She began chemotherapy, but relapsed seven months later, and moved on to the next line of treatment: a stem cell transplant.

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Protecting Parenthood for Cancer Survivors – CURE Magazine

When Melissa Meli received a diagnosis of breast cancer earlier this year, her boyfriend’s mother was the first person to suggest — gently — that she look into freezing eggs before starting chemotherapy that could make her infertile. Meli’s oncologist agreed, and a few days later, Meli met with a reproductive specialist while her boyfriend was deployed. Aside from having breast cancer, Meli, who is under 40, was in good health, and the doctor said fertility preservation would take just ...

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How to Manage the Side Effects of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) Treatment – HealthCentral

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common form of leukemia in adults. It starts in the bone marrow in the cells that will become white blood cells. It takes time for leukemia cells to build up in the body, and some people live with this form of cancer for years with few or no symptoms. Once there are enough leukemia cells, however, they can spread to your lymph nodes, liver, and spleen. At that point, ...

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