What Is Paget’s Disease Of The Breast?

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What Is Atypical Ductal Hyperplasia?

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What Is Secretory Breast Cancer & How Is It Treated?

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When Exercising, What Lymphedema Symptoms Should I Be Aware Of?

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What Is Intraoperative Radiation Therapy?

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    Get Dr. Harness’ 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor – Click Here Intra-Operative Radiation Therapy, otherwise known as IORT, is giving a dose of radiation at the time of surgery.  There are different technologies doing this but they all essentially do the same thing where at the time of surgery, some [...]

What Is Image-Guided Radiation Therapy?

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    Get Dr. Harness’ 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor – Click Here Image-Guided Radiation Therapy, or IGRT, is trying to get real time feedback as far as the patient’s positioning.  It’s very important for radiation oncologists to make sure that we are treating the target volume and the area that we [...]

What Is Stereotactic Radiation Therapy?

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    Get Dr. Harness’ 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor – Click Here Stereotactic Radiation Therapy is giving high doses of external beam radiation therapy but in very focal beams.  So it’s utilized in a situation where you have a small area, a particular spot, that you want to get a very [...]

Oncotype DX Test: What Is It?

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    Get Dr. Harness’ 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor – Click Here The Oncotype DX Test does not provide information about an individual’s inherited genetic makeup; instead, it provides information about the biology of the tumor itself. *** This information should not be relied upon as a substitute for personal medical [...]

What Are Precancerous Findings In Breast Cancer?

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    Get Dr. Harness’ 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor – Click Here So what are precancerous findings in breast cancer? The classic one is called ‘lobular carcinoma in situ’. This is an incidental finding at the time of a breast biopsy for whatever the reason is. Typically, it’s a benign outcome [...]

What Is Stage 1 Breast Cancer?

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    Get Dr. Harness’ 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor – Click Here Stage 1 breast cancer is an invasive breast cancer. It is smaller than 2 cm in size and the lymph nodes are negative by definition. Stage 1 breast cancer can typically be treated either by a lumpectomy or in [...]

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