Anxiety around mammograms can lead some women to avoid them altogether. Fortunately, the vast majority of women getting screening mammograms will find out their results are normal and not need additional testing. The importance of early screening for breast cancer cannot be taken lightly. There...
Most breast lumps are not breast cancer, but something less serious considered “benign breast conditions” like fibroadenomas, breast cysts or similar, which occur frequently in young women. Some lumps are related to your menstrual cycle and usually go away with the ending of your cycle....
https://youtu.be/wuqBP64cToM Breast Cancer Awareness Month All through October, Dr. Anne Peled will be sharing stories and videos about breast cancer in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. ...
One of the most frequent questions I get asked when I speak to patients about recovering after surgery is when they can exercise again. I love having active and healthy patients and strongly encourage exercise before and after surgery, but always spend a lot of...
Prophylactic mastectomy is a surgical procedure that removes one or both breasts in order to lower the potential for breast cancer development in women at higher breast cancer risk. The surgery can significantly reduce the risk for women carrying the BRCA1 or BRCA 2 gene mutation or...
Dr. Peled has been chosen to be profiled in this month's California Society of Plastic Surgeons New Member Spotlight, with an interview discussing the best thing about being a plastic surgeon, her favorite procedure to perform, what she couldn't operate without, her first social media...
I recently saw a woman in my office who had been diagnosed with breast cancer over 30 years ago, at age 37. At that time, she had undergone a simple mastectomy without reconstruction, a major lymph node dissection, and chemotherapy for what sounded like a small, very...
Switching to pre-pectoral (“over-the-muscle”) breast reconstruction: how to fix chest wall hyperanimation Up until the last few years, most women who had implant reconstruction after mastectomy typically had their implants placed under their chest wall muscles. Now, however, we know that women can get great reconstruction...
Six weeks ago, I was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. As a breast cancer and breast plastic surgeon, I see women all the time who are in the exact same place I’ve been since receiving the phone call from the pathologist. Shocked and terrified by the...
I was recently at a meeting with a talk about “Mommy Makeovers,” a term popularized in social media for women looking to improve their appearance following pregnancy and having children. As a plastic surgeon and a mother, I’ve never liked the term, thinking it takes...