Breast cancer surgery with no visible scar

Treatment Terms Breast cancer Cancer Additional SEO Keywords self-breast exams, breast cancer in young women, hidden scar surgery, nipple-sparring mastectomy SEO Meta Description After years of self-breast exams, Leslie Hollingsworth was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. Author Debbe Geiger Overview Leslie Hollingsworth was in her early 20s when her grandmother was first diagnosed with <a href="/treatments/cancer/breast-cancer">breast cancer</a>. Now 50, Hollingsworth has been doing self-breast exams and getting mammograms ever since. Finding breast lumps was a common occurrence because, Hollingsworth has “fibrocystic breast tissue” or, simply put, lumpy, dense breasts. Hero Image lesliehollingworth_blog.jpg Preview Image Content Blocks Content “I would check my breasts and become concerned because there was always something there,” she said. Each time she would undergo an ultrasound and possibly a biopsy and be given the all clear. Section Features Text Content Header Digital mammogram shows irregular mass in dense breast tissue Content In January 2016, Hollingsworth found another lump and made an appointment with Lisa Tolnitch, MD, a Duke breast surgeon whose breast cancer clinic in Raleigh was on...
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