Women choose flat after mastectomy amid risks and stigma
A study of 123 women shows two thirds would forgo reconstruction before mastectomy, yet less than a third proceed. Many are not fully informed about implant risks and multiple surgeries. Younger women increasingly opt to go flat with online support and advocacy helping destigmatize breast absence.
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Ross
Philadelphia
Clara N Lee
Ohio State University
Wexner Medical Center
JAMA
U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Plastic Groups
Rebecca Pine
Freeport
Long Island
Bucks County
Miana Jun
Pine
Lee
Sara Bartosiewicz- Hamilton
Kalamazoo
Mich
Philly
Mobile Masses highlight forgotten people in Visalia and Fresno
Bishop Armando Ochoa leads a rural mobile Mass in Mooney Grove Park Visalia and at Fresno’s Kearney Park praising Native American history and immigrant labor. He links the service to the diocese’s 50th anniversary and social justice, urging immigration reform and forgiveness for past injustices.
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Visalia
Calif
Armando Ochoa
Tule
Mooney Grove Park
St. John’s Cathedral
Mooney Grove
San Joaquin Valley
Luna
Raymond Dretling
Junipero Serra
California
Manzanar National Historic Sate
Sierra
Naihsete Namnaen
Ochoa
Catholic Bishops of
Fresno
Kearney Park
Kearney
Armando X. Ochoa
Devine
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