What is the difference between fibroids and cysts? What to do if you have them? How they can be treated/prevented? How will this affect your spouse and your sex life? Should you increase or decrease hormones? Should you get surgery? What are the risks? Will this affect your ability to get pregnant? Women always come [...]
With Breast Cancer Awareness Month coming to a close, we share this amazing patient’s story with you. We hope it offers support and optimism and encourage all men and women to keep the awareness conversation going, not just this month, but every month. – I was just a few months into my 30s when Dr. [...]
This is the true account of a brave and courageous woman who offered to share her story as a breast cancer SURVIVOR to offer hope and encouragement to all the women suffering and needing a boost of support. We applaud Heidi’s strength and openness in sharing her story in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. [...]
“Breast cancer”………women hear these words and they evoke anxiety and fear. I am 44 years old now, and had my fourth mammogram about a month ago as I’ve started getting yearly mammograms since forty years old. And despite the fact I’m an OB/GYN medical doctor, like every other woman, I get a little nervous when [...]
“Doctor, I don’t want to get a mammogram this year because it hurts!” “I heard that the radiation from a mammogram causes cancer.” “If I have breast cancer, the pressure from the mammogram machine on my breast will cause it to spread.” As a gynecologist for 17 years, I have heard many reasons why [...]
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