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Higher incidence of bile duct injury during laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has rapidly substituted traditional cholecystectomy, and represents the gold standard for surgical treatment of cholelithiasis. Bile duct injury (BDI) remains the most serious //complication of cholecystectomy. According to a recent survey, published in the October issue of the journal Archives of Surgery, the incidence of BDI has become more frequent wit...

Majority Of Women Satisfied With Decision To Have Preventive Mastectomy

New research has found that women who have cancer in one breast and decide to have mastectomy on the unaffected one as well lead a good quality of life despite popular perception to the contrary. // “A large majority of women were satisfied with their decisions to have the preventive mastectomy in addition to their primary breast cancer treatment,” said Ann Geiger, Ph.D., lead author, fro...

Preventive Mastectomy Does Not Carry Emotional Baggage For Most Women

A new study published in the latest issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology says that most women, who opt for a preventive mastectomy to prevent// the cancer from spreading to the normal breast, do not regret their decision. The study surveyed 519 women who had opted to have their second breast removed after they were diagnosed with breast cancer in a single breast. Researchers of Wak...

Survey: preventive mastectomy is not a regret for most women

According to a new study, most women who have a breast removed to prevent a second bout of cancer don't regret their decision.// 519 women who'd had cancer in one breast but decided to have both breasts removed in order to avoid a recurrence were surveyed. Overall, researchers found, 87 percent said they were still satisfied with their decision, as long as 23 years after the fact....

A 24 Year Old Girls Undergoes Double Mastectomy To Prevent Breast Cancer

Becky Measures had a 90 per cent chance of developing breast cancer, due to an inherited gene but she wasn't prepared to wait//. In January this year she became the youngest woman in Britain to have a preventative double mastectomy and has is so happy to have done so. Becky a radio presenter was 11 years old when her mother, Wendy Watson, become one of the first women in the country t...

Woman Elects For Mastectomy: Prolonged Wait For Genetic Results

A 36-year old, Scot woman, Oonagh Wilson, elected to undergo hysterectomy and mastectomy. due to a 4-year delay in finding out the degree of susceptibility her family harbors to develop breast cancer //. Oonagh’s decision came after being told that she would have wait for at least two more years for the results of the genetic tests. Lack of funding and trained professionals, changes...

Piercing breast led to mastectomy in teenager

A young 18 year old who got her breasts pierced for her 18th birthday suffered near fatal infection in her left breast that forced doctors to surgically remove her left// breast. Surgeons had to remove lymph nodes and infected skin right up to Stephanie Edington’s collar bone last week at the Indiana University Medical Center in Indianapolis where she remained hospitalized. Doctors w...