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Proposed Mastectomy Law Change
Breast Cancer Hospitalization Bill - Important legislation for all women.

There's a bill called the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act which will require insurance companies to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital stay for patients undergoing a mastectomy. It's about eliminating the 'drive-through mastectomy' where women are forced to go home just a few hours after surgery, against the wishes of their doctor, still groggy from anesthesia and sometimes with drainage tubes still attached.

My daughter's mother in law has been diagnosed with breast cancer. I want to send her the best books out there. What are they?

PLEASE PASS THIS ON. It only takes a few minutes to go to the website and sign the petition. THANK YOU From a nurse:

Since Cynthia Nixon just talked about her breast cancer (I believe detected by a mammogram in her very early 40s) as well as Cheryl Crow and Melissa Etheridge also in their early 40s. Kylie Minogue was in her mid 30s. And of course, there are the thousands of young women out there we haven't heard of. Routine mammograms are advised to women starting in their 40s. I know breast tissue is denser when we are younger so cancer is less detectable but it seems breast cancer is being seen in younger and younger women.

I am a breast cancer survivor who had a mastectomy in one breast two years ago. I am now cancer-free, but my other breast is very sensitive and painful. Has anyone has this problem also?

Has anyone ever heard of false positives for BRACAs? If so, what was your experience? If you received the false positive on the test, what were your next steps or tests?

Hi Michelle- Over the summer I had a lumpectomy due to estrogen-receptive Breast Cancer and I'm wondering if you might know an excellent doctor who has experience treating women with Tamoxifin substitutes that are natural such as Indole 3 Carbinol? We have been given contradictory advice by nutritionists, chiropractors, physicians and oncologists about how to successfully lower my estrogen. Warmly, Barbara in Thousand Oaks, CA

Going against the recommendation of its advisory panel, the Food and Drug Administration cleared Avastin and judged the effectiveness of the drug based on measurements of tumor growth, not patient survival. Should the drug have been approved?

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