Helping A Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer Patient – Tami Boehmer

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    Get Dr. Harness’ 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor with tips from Tami Boehmer – Click Here *** This information should not be relied upon as a substitute for personal medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Use the information provided on this site solely at your own risk.  If you have any [...]

How Is Chemotherapy For Breast Cancer Delivered?

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    Get Dr. Harness’ 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor – Click Here *** This information should not be relied upon as a substitute for personal medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Use the information provided on this site solely at your own risk.  If you have any concerns about your health, please [...]

Dr. Harness’ 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor

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    I am not just a breast cancer surgeon; I have several other roles when it comes to the care and treatment of patients who are newly diagnosed with breast cancer. In addition to being a surgeon I am also the patient’s leading advocate. I want to make sure that the patient has choices. [...]

How Do I Choose Between Lumpectomy & Mastectomy?

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    Get Dr. Harness’ 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor – Click Here *** This information should not be relied upon as a substitute for personal medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Use the information provided on this site solely at your own risk.  If you have any concerns about your health, please [...]

What Is A Tumor?

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    Get Dr. Harness’ 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor – Click Here Tumor is an abnormal growth of tissue. A tumor can be a benign tumor or it can be a malignant tumor. Another term for malignant, of course, is ‘cancerous’. A tumor or tumore, if you will, is a collection [...]

How Is Breast Cancer Diagnosed?

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    Get Dr. Harness’ 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor – Click Here Well, to make a definitive diagnosis, you need tissue. The best way to get tissue is either through a fine needle biopsy, which gets individualized cells, or a core needle biopsy. Obviously, the suspicion that you have a diagnosis [...]

Newly Diagnosed With Breast Cancer… Now What?

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    Get Dr. Harness’ 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor – Click Here It’s really important with a new diagnosis that you be in the hands of a multidisciplinary team of people who are used to working together. This includes a breast surgeon, a medical oncologist, a radiation oncologist, hopefully that team [...]

What Are Breast Cysts?

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    Get Dr. Harness’ 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor – Click Here What are breast cysts? It’s a very, very common complaint. I probably see them in my practice almost on a daily basis. A cyst is a fluid-filled sac, if you will, within the breast, most commonly and typically seen [...]

What Are The Symptoms Of Breast Cancer?

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    Get Dr. Harness’ 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor – Click Here The kind of symptoms of breast cancer that we worry about is clearly a dominant lump or a mass in the breast that’s new.  It’s not been there before, particularly if it’s after the menstrual period, so that’s a [...]

If I Find A Lump In My Breast, What Should I Do?

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    Get Dr. Harness’ 15 Breast Cancer Questions To Ask Your Doctor – Click Here A lump in the breast is a very common complaint of patients. Now, first of all, we need to remember that the surface of the breast can be quite irregular and lumpy but a new lump (or a mass [...]

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