Orlando plastic surgeon, Richard Bosshardt recently outlined the status of the latest breast cancer treatments and medical efforts to minimize its negative effects.
Many women know that prevention is key and are aware of the statistics - that “about 1 in 8 women will have to face breast cancer in their lifetime.” However, there are new reasons to be optimistic: Doctors have begun practicing “breast conservation” rather than outright removal, chemotherapy is more advanced and reconstruction has become more sophisticated than ever, with patients often looking better as an end result.
Also, family ‘genetic markers’ have become excellent risk indicators, narrowing the search for a definite cause. Of course, as Bosshardt says, breast implants, bras and high-fat diets have never been shown to have any correlation with increased breast cancer risk.
Read Dr. Bosshardt’s original article at the Orlando Sentinel here.
