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Cancer Connect Episode 6

Cancer Connect reunites with Julie Grimm after the ONS Conference in New Orleans. Julie tells us WHY it is so important to have a planner when first diagnosed and HOW her planner will not only keep you organized, but act as your comfort blanket and friend during this uncertain time.

Julie Grimm is a breast cancer and brain tumor survivor and knows first hand the feelings and emotional state the flood a patient's mind and body when newly diagnosed. Inspirational and motivational, Julie is a great person with an amazing product!

Elective Second Mastectomy

Dear Dr. Bone,

I just celebrated 5 years out from my breast cancer. I had a mastectomy and implant reconstruction with a matching augmentation implant to the other side for symmetry. This week I had a suspicious mammogram on my remaining real breast. I am a wreck waiting for the biopsy. I don’t think I can go through it all again. Do you think the surgeon would be wiling to remove my breast regardless of the biopsy result? I think it will be the only way I will sleep peacefully.

Anxiously waiting,
Jupiter

Dear Anxious,

If only I had a penny for every patient in your shoes...Your situation is not unusual. There is no question that the prospect of having another cancer is almost unthinkable. The good news is that statistically it should not be a cancer. My advice is to take it one day at a time and not try to predict your reaction ahead of time. If you wish to have a mastectomy regardless of the biopsy results, you should discuss it with the surgeon. As I have mentioned many times, I have never heard a woman regret that she had bilateral mastectomies, only that she didn’t! If your insurance company does not feel that it is a procedure they want to pay for, you will need to address that issue. The cost-benefit analysis would seem to fall in favor of the surgery over years of imaging with follow-up extra views, sonograms, MRIs, and even biopsies. Should you get a second cancer, it would then be very costly for your insurer to pay for surgery, radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy. Having said all that, it can be tough to convince some insurance companies that they should pay for the prophylactic surgery.

Good luck.
Dr. Bone                                

NEW! Cancer Connect Podcast

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Cancer Connect (to be released this week), is a weekly short through inspiration and motivation. Feel free to listen at home, or work to the wonderful people who have become innovative during the healing process and would like to share their journey with you. We will also be interviewing caregivers to help express the anxiety and stress they undergo with little to no support. Our goal is to change the way people think of cancer and bring a new resource into the homes of that many more patients, caregivers and professionals.

Our first guest will be recent blogger Susan Parker. We are so excited to share this new journey with our followers and we hope you will enjoy!

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