Watch as Dr. Harness explains what a woman should do if her doctor says,"Oh dear, you have nothing to worry about" after her mammogram results. Dr. Jay Harness is the former President of the American Society of Breast Surgeons.
Dr. Jay Harness:
Saying "Oh dear, you have nothing to worry about" is not a final answer. If you know there is something there, then go to the next level of care, which is typically to a breast surgeon. The breast surgeon like myself may combine doing their own ultrasound examination, with the physical examination, with the imaging studies. Interestingly, a lot of the times those kinds of lumps that are palpated in the breast are just irregular parts of the breasts that are more prominent, but it often takes the breast surgeon to really put those pieces of the puzzle together in order to reassure you, but go to the next level of care is really the bottom line.
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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