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What Is the Best Type of Breast Implant After a Mastectomy?
After a mastectomy as part of your breast cancer treatment, you might choose to have breast reconstruction surgery. You’ll want a breast that looks realistic and won’t need to be replaced after a short time. Which is the better choice: saline or silicone breast implants?
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Tips To Make Roads Safer for Walkers and Cyclists
As the weather cools down, you might be thinking about heading outdoors to get some exercise.
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UroNav Technology Yields Better Prostate Cancer Detection
Prostate cancer is one of the most common types of cancers in men, with 1 in 9 diagnosed with the disease within their lifetime. While
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Study: Yoga May Reduce the Side Effects of Cancer Treatment
If you’re working on mastering the Child’s Pose or the Bharadvaja's Twist, it may bode well for your health, according to one recent study.
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Does Your Head Hurt? It May Be a Cluster Headache
Have you ever had a headache so mind-numbing and painful that you could barely think? Maybe it was a migraine or sinus headache, but it’s also possible that it was a cluster headache.
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First patient at Orlando Health undergoes transcatheter aortic valve replacement
Catheter used during transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure. The transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure is designed for high-risk patients living with severe chest pain, congestive heart failure or symptoms of aortic stenosis — an age-related heart disease that develops when calcium deposits cause the aortic valve to narrow, forcing the heart to work harder to pump enough blood through a smaller opening.
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What is Comprehensive Stroke Care—and Why is it Critical?
Although stroke rates have declined over the past two decades due to improved medical care and better control of risk factors, stroke remains the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, and a leading cause of long-term disability.
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Study Highlights Age When Breast Cancer Risk May Be Greatest For BRCA1 and BRCA2 Carriers
Women with inherited genetic mutations make up between 5 to 10 percent of all breast cancer cases diagnosed in the country.
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New Localization Technology Makes Breast Cancer Lumpectomy Surgery Easier, More Efficient
Each year, more than 2.8 million women in the United States have breast procedures that require precisely locating a tumor for a lumpectomy or a biopsy. On the day of the procedure, radiologists traditionally mark that area by numbing the breast with a local anesthetic, inserting a needle into the breast and threading a thin wire into that needle, then removing the needle so the wire remains as a marker for the surgeon. With needle/wire localization process, the wire is then removed during the biopsy procedure.
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New prostate cancer tools at Orlando Health shorten treatment
An innovative prostate cancer treatment now offered at the Orlando Health Cancer Institute provides men with new options to fight the disease.
