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lioara
lioara Member Posts: 4
edited June 2014 in High Risk for Breast Cancer

 
Hi all,
can anyone pls help me with an advice. I am 35 years old and thinking to have prophylactic mastectomy. My mother died from breast cancer when she was 42, she was diagnosed about my age (her sister the same, and few other of her cousins). my genetic testing showed a rare mutation on braca1. Anyone living around New York area can recommend a good breast and reconstruction surgeon? Do you mind sharing your experience? i am a little scared! Thank you!
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  • AnnNYC
    AnnNYC Member Posts: 4,484
    edited July 2008

    Hi Lioara,

    I am sending you a PM (there's a black rectangle towards the top right of the screen that says "Private Messages" -- a pink number will appear in it when someone has send you a PM -- you can click on it to get to your private messages).

    Best,

    Ann

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  • Peaches70
    Peaches70 Member Posts: 210
    edited July 2008

    Check out Dr. Allen or Dr. Levine. They are PSs who work in NYC (and other places as well). They are highly recommended.

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  • AnnNYC
    AnnNYC Member Posts: 4,484
    edited July 2008

    Peaches70, since you recommend Dr. Allen, I assume you mean Dr. Joshua Levine.  There is also a fine plastic surgeon at NYU named Dr. Jamie Levine.

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  • JapanLynn
    JapanLynn Member Posts: 471
    edited July 2008

    Lioara,

    I also sent you a PM.

    Lynn

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  • Methusala
    Methusala Member Posts: 285
    edited July 2008

    Go to Roswell Park in Buffalo.

    You can't go wrong. 

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  • bisous3
    bisous3 Member Posts: 116
    edited August 2008

    Before recommending a surgical team you may want to decide which surgical option you are going to choose. I read the "Breast Reconstruciton Guidebook" by Kathy Steligo and wound up choosing the Alloderm One Step procedure with Drs. Ashikari and Salzberg in Dobbs Ferry, NY. It was a skin sparing, nipple sparing prophylactic mastectomy (I am BRCA 2+) , non- expander....immediate placement of implants.

    Should you choose to use your own tissue, I would go to Dr. Levine in a heartbeat. I heard him speak at the FORCE conference last year and saw his work in photographs and not only is he wonderfully warm, but he is an excellent surgeon.

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  • johnwayne
    johnwayne Member Posts: 36
    edited August 2008

    I'm sure you've already been told this, but if you can afford it, go strait to Sloan-Kettering.  Larry Norton or Clifford Hudis as your oncologist/team leader.

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