Aesthetic Flat Closure and Flat Denial
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By Kim BowlesPresident & Founder, NotPuttingonaShirt.org Every year, 250,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States. Despite the prevailing narrative that breast cancer is a disease of older women, roughly 15% of those diagnoses are under age 40. I was 35 years old and nursing my second baby when I was diagnosed.I felt like I had entered a nightmare world and might never wake up.And I was one of the lucky ones - 10% of all breast cancer diagnoses are what
The trauma of making peace with your surgical decision, only to wake up to something completely different, is hard to describe. Read Kim's story now.
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Going Flat After a Mastectomy: What to Know
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Aesthetic Flat Closure: An Overview From a Breast Cancer and
Breast cancer survivors show that 'going flat' after mastectomy is
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Aesthetic Flat Closure: Kimberly's Story
Breast cancer survivors show that 'going flat' after mastectomy is
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Breast Reconstruction in Miami - Gallagher Plastic
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If you decline reconstruction with your mastectomy, be sure to ask your surgeon for an aesthetic flat closure as defined by the @National Cancer
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