No doubt about it, facing a breast cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming and frightening. Understandably, you may feel that you don’t know where to start on this journey that you didn’t ask to take.
Here are some important questions to consider asking your breast cancer surgeon:
For decades, the medical community has debated about exactly when and how often women should have mammograms to screen for breast cancer. What’s not up for debate, however, are two factors physicians and researchers know for sure: Mammograms are the single best way to detect breast cancer.
Being diagnosed with breast cancer is the start of a journey that no one ever hopes to have to take. From understanding the initial diagnosis through surgery and treatment, and then on to long-term recovery, there are many questions to consider every step of the way.
Many people still aren’t aware that smoking doesn’t just affect select parts of your body, like the lungs or the heart. In fact, smoking affects nearly every single system, organ, tissue, and cell in your body. This includes your entire vascular system, of which your arteries and veins play an essential role.
Each year, approximately 200,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Typically, most of these abdominal aortic aneurysms don’t cause any obvious symptoms until they rupture. However, once abdominal aortic aneurysms rupture, the estimated death rate is over 50% for those who suffer a rupture before arriving at a hospital.
According to the National Institutes of Health, up to 40% of adults have varicose veins to some degree. Varicose veins are swollen or distended veins that most often appear on the legs and feet. They occur when one-way valves in the veins become too weak to keep blood circulating upwards to the heart. As blood pools in the veins over time, many people notice that certain veins under on their legs or feet look enlarged, twisted, and blueish.
Imagine that your blood vessels are like an intricate system of elastic pipes or tubes made of various sizes. Blood circulates from your heart to
Let’s face it, even though texting while driving is against the law in Indiana, many Hoosiers still take the chance to glance at their phone
If you were ever seriously injured to the point that your life was on the line, you would want to take it for granted that
Taylor Swift is talking about it. Dr. Oz is talking about it too, and so are our physicians and trauma nurse practitioners. National Stop the Bleed Day is May 23, and it’s one of the largest public service campaigns in our country.
What would you guess is the leading cause of death in the first four decades of an average American’s lifespan? Many people suspect cancer or heart disease, but neither of these are the leading cause of death for people age 1 – 44.
Evansville Surgical Associates’ surgeon Dr. Anthony Kaiser has joined with Deaconess Hospital in their pledge to increase colon cancer screenings to 80% by 2018 as
