Dr. Harness explains if you need to have breast cancer right away? Watch This Video. Treatment, facts & help from Dr. Jay Harness Pres. American Society of Breast Surgeons. St. Joseph Hospital Comprehensive Breast Center.
Dr. Jay Harness:
One of the questions that I am commonly asked is "Don’t I need surgery right away? Isn’t the cancer spreading like wildfire through my body?" My answer is time is your friend. From the time of the first abnormal cancer cells when you are seeing me averages probably two to three years and some breast cancers are may be five even perhaps up to seven to ten years. So, the work that we do on the front end to try and decide what kind of surgery you need. What kind of treatment you need may take two or three weeks. But I constantly say time is your friend. Particularly, we only want to go the operating room once and we want to know exactly what we are going for and exactly what we are going to do.
Bio:
Jay K. Harness, MD, FACS is recognized nationally and internationally for his work in the fields of breast and endocrine surgery. Over his career, he has established three multi-disciplinary breast centers including the nation’s first academic multi-disciplinary at the University of Michigan in 1985. In 2003, Dr. Harness established the St. Joseph Hospital Comprehensive Breast Center in the city of Orange, California, which is, located Orange County. Over the years, Dr. Harness has held various academic appointments including at the University of Michigan where he attended medical school and did all of his surgical training as well as at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, the University of California, Davis, the University of California, San Francisco, and now currently at the University of California, Irvine.
Dr. Harness is the immediate past-President of The American Society of Breast Surgeons and is President-elect of Breast Surgery International. He has also served as Chair of the Board of Directors of The American Society of Breast Surgeons, Secretary-Treasurer and President of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons. Dr. Harness is a member of the Medical Advisory Board of EmpowHer. He is well-published with 80 articles and book chapters in the medical literature. He has also been the lead editor of two textbooks: Breast Cancer-Collaborative Management (1988) and Ultrasound and Surgical practice: Basic Principles and Clinical Applications (2001).
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