Breast reconstruction

drooping face, fatty thighs, or a sagging chest. There are plenty of accomplished plastic surgeons out there performing procedures every day to help people go beyond their genetics and reach their full beauty potential. One such procedure is the breast lift. It is the perfect solution for women who have begun to notice their chest sagging with age: the inevitable effects of getting older and having gravity take its toll. Some women choose to compensate for this by purchasing tighter, more…

Plastic surgery has become one of the prominent necessities for some of the individuals to transform their physical appearances. Over the foregoing few decades, the popularity of plastic surgery has keep increasing because of the increasing level of awareness for cosmetic surgery. Meanwhile not only cosmetic surgery is popular among the people in the world also the other surgeries include many types of reconstructive surgery, craniofacial surgery, hand surgery, microsurgery, and the treatment…

On Nov 17th 2016, my colleague Fen underwent the resection of a lung nodule. It turned out to be adenocarcinoma in situ, a very early stage of lung cancer with favorable prognosis. I've never felt more relieved and fulfilled because she was the 32nd patient we saved in the CT lung cancer screening program. It was a profound moment on my way to pursue my goal--to help people fight with cancer. I have acquired perseverance, leadership and aspiration on this long way, which ensured me the…

Almost everyone worldwide has thoughts, anxieties about their bodies and self-images so they often dream about having a different body to their own. For some people, it is about perfecting certain imperfections and anomalies that they are not satisfied with and do not want over their bodies. Thus, this may lead them to consider plastic surgery which is the medical speciality that concerns with the anomalies and the imperfections on the face and body (Plastic Surgery, par 1). On the one…

imaging that uses a low-dose x-ray system to see inside the breasts. It aids in the early detection and diagnosis of breast diseases in women. It is used as a screening tool to detect early breast cancer in women experiencing no symptoms. They can also be used to detect and diagnose breast disease in women experiencing symptoms such as a lump, pain, skin dimpling or nipple discharge. It is the preferred screening examination for breast cancer as it is widely available, well-tolerated and…

Actress and motivational speaker Ann Jillian once said, “there can be life after breast cancer, the prerequisite is early detection.” As breast cancer is becoming increasingly more prevalent in American woman, the line between how the media is spreading awareness for finding a cause and the importance of preventions and early detections is being skewed, thus affecting the social construction of the portrayal of breast cancer in modern society. Awareness for the preventions and early detections…

anode material, mammography gear utilizes molybdenum anodes or in a few plans, a double material anode with an extra rhodium track. These materials are utilized in light of the fact that they deliver a trademark radiation range that is near ideal for breast imaging, this complies with the ALARA principle even though the energy of the x-ray beam is low, the manner in which the mammography machine is made up of these filters it makes the radiation dose to the patient less (Sprawls, 2013: Online). …

about cancerous skin tags. According to dermatologists, skin tags are not cancerous growths and are not capable of becoming cancerous. Skin tags are benign growths of skin protruding from the epidermis, often occurring on the eyelids, armpits, breasts, and groin. These growths often occur in individuals over sixty years of age, but can occur at any age. Skin tags are formally known as acrochordons, and are classified as tumors; however, skin tag tumors cannot become cancerous.…

Case Study: Cervical Cancer Epidemiology and health is concerned with the study of the distribution and the determinants of health and disease in human populations. This case study will review cervical cancer, firstly it will outline and define the condition. It will then present up-to-date data describing the impact, prevalence and mortality rates of the condition before moving on to discuss the distribution and trends of the disease among the Scottish female population. Finally it will…

Ovarian cancer affects the ovaries, organs within the female reproductive system. Ovaries help assist with the production of eggs that are used during reproduction. Women often have two ovaries, one on each side of the uterus located within the pelvis. Due to their small size, ovarian cancer is often undetected until it has reached the pelvis and abdomen. If left untreated, it is more harder to treat the cancer and could up being very fatal for the patient. Luckily, ovarian cancer has symptoms.…