We had a successful poster session at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) this past month, presenting a poster with the results of our original research, “Flat closure after mastectomy: are your patients satisfied with the results?” This research explored the patient experience going flat, including decision factors, satisfaction with cosmesis, provider pushback, andContinue reading “Our Poster at SABCS 2019”
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Coding for Flat Closure
Interested in helping us break down barriers that women going flat face when trying to achieve an aesthetic result they can live with? Coding for flat closure is one of those barriers, and Not Putting on a Shirt is on the case with our Coding for Flat Closure project. The problem: there’s no clear pathwayContinue reading “Coding for Flat Closure”
Shared Decision Making: Protecting Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent
SDM is about patient autonomy and informed consent. Shared decision making (SDM) is a collaborative model of clinical decision-making that ensures the patient’s values and priorities are centered during the decision making process. It represents a philosophy of clinical practice that restores and protects patient autonomy and informed consent, and it is one of theContinue reading “Shared Decision Making: Protecting Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent”
Cleveland Clinic Researchers Publish Paper on Aesthetic Flat Closure
You read that right. Cleveland Clinic researchers, in partnership with the University of Toledo, have been researching flat closure. Cleveland Clinic y’all. This week in research to #putflatonthemenu … a collaborative paper from researchers out of the The University of Toledo and Cleveland Clinic just published their aesthetic approach to flat closure in The Breast Journal, entitled “Technical considerations in nonreconstructiveContinue reading “Cleveland Clinic Researchers Publish Paper on Aesthetic Flat Closure”
FDA Issues Landmark Recommendations for Implant Manufacturers
Hot off the press – FDA is listening to women’s voices on breast implants. Today, FDA issued a recommendation to implant manufacturers that include many of the items that Breast Implant Safety Alliance and others have been pushing for: a black box warning to clearly identify risks (this is the most serious warning labeling the FDA hasContinue reading “FDA Issues Landmark Recommendations for Implant Manufacturers”