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The creation of an artificial breast following a mastectomy by a plastic surgeon.

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Health Watch: Breast Cancer Survivor Issues

Published August 27, 2008, 4:30 pm, WCBS-TV New York

There is good news on the breast cancer front. Thanks to early detection and improved treatment, many more women are surviving their disease. That also means that many more women are facing all sorts of survivor issues they never had to before.

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Newsweek: Prophylactic mastectomies on the rise

Published August 27, 2008, 3:32 pm, MSNBC

Like Christina Applegate, more women are choosing prophylactic mastectomies when diagnosed with breast cancer. But does the radical procedure increase survival rates?

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Why Prophylactic Mastectomies Are Increasing

Published August 27, 2008, 2:32 pm, Newsweek

Like Christina Applegate, more women are choosing prophylactic mastectomies. But does the radical procedure increase breast-cancer survival rates?

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Award-winning filmmaker Randa Chahal Sabag passes away in Paris

Published August 26, 2008, 10:25 pm, Zawya

BEIRUT: Tripoli-born filmmaker Randa Chahal Sabag died in Paris on Monday after a years-long struggle with breast cancer. At a mere 55 years of age, Sabag's passing is nothing if not premature.

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Award-winning filmmaker Randa Chahal Sabag passes away in Paris

Published August 26, 2008, 1:14 pm, The Daily Star Lebannon

Tripoli-born filmmaker Randa Chahal Sabag died in Paris on Monday after a years-long struggle with breast cancer. At a mere 55 years of age, Sabag's passing is nothing if not premature. Like many filmmakers from Lebanon and the wider Middle East, where the film industry is either non-existent or financially proscribed.

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ASPS Urges Team Approach To Breast Reconstruction

Published August 26, 2008, 5:15 am, Medical News Today

Actress Christina Applegate's public disclosure of her breast cancer, her decision to have a double mastectomy, and plans to go forth with breast reconstruction, calls attention to the need for a medical "team" approach in the treatment and recovery from breast cancer. "A decision to have breast reconstruction surgery is a decision to have plastic surgery.

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Sisters take to the hills for a breast cancer cure

Published August 25, 2008, 6:12 pm, The Herald

It was their genetic path which led three sisters from Glasgow to their darkest days. Not only did they see their mother die from breast cancer, but each of them, too, has been affected by the disease.

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SURVIVE AND THRIVE

Published August 25, 2008, 10:24 am, New York Amsterdam News

''There's some bad news, the mass is not benign.'' In January last year, my world was turned upside down with that one sentence. But, now – thanks to the highest, like an incredible number of women in and around New York, I am a breast cancer survivor.

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Staff steps in to help co-worker with cancer

Published August 25, 2008, 7:20 am, The Jackson Citizen Patriot

Lindsay Tebo quit her job at the Beach Bar last March to battle breast cancer. Dealing with her second fight with cancer in seven years, the Jackson mother with two young children regretfully relinquished her job as a manager at the Clark Lake restaurant.

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Applegate calls double mastectomy a 'tough' choice

Published August 24, 2008, 10:47 pm, The Pantagraph

NEW YORK -- Christina Applegate is taking the long view of her battle with breast cancer - the really long view.

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  • 98% Of Mastectomy Patients Would Have Breast Reconstruction Again: Women who have breast reconstruction after an elective mastectomy for breast cancer are satisfied with their decision to undergo reconstruction , have low complication rates and 98% would do it again, reports a study in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery ®, the official journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).

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