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Do Breast Implants Interfere with Breast Cancer Detection?

Well, this question has been asked many times before, and the answer is, it depends. It depends on what kind of breast implants you have. For example, if you have over the muscle implants, these many times can obstruct the view when you’re getting a mammogram, and make the detection - at least early detection more difficult.

We are lucky enough that nowadays, with so many women having implants, they have gotten a little better about performing mammograms, but it still remains that if you can get them under the muscle, do it - this improves the chances of early detection.

Now, here’s the not so good statistics and news. It has been estimated that implants can cause a 15% to 50% decrease of visualized breast tissue in a mammogram (not a good thing, it decreases the chance that the technician or doc will find anything) and several studies have also shown that false negatives, or those that missed cancer that was really there, in 12% to 67% of women with implants.

That part is very scary, and I think the percentage is fairly high, although we can never really be sure that these statistics are accurate.

Other options for mammograms in women with breast augmentation are to go with another type of early detection other than the mammogram, which uses compression of the breasts and several different angles of inspection for early cancer detection.

These options are an ultrasound guided needle biopsy or a stereotactic biopsy. A stereotactic biopsy is a surgical technique used for precisely guiding the tip of a needle or laser beam of radiation in three planes using coordinates provided by medical imaging in order to reach a specific locus in the body (as a tumor in the brain or breast.

 

 

 

 

Your Breasts After Baby

A lot of my friends now are concerned with what their breasts either a.) look like now after they’ve already had their children, or b.) are going to look like after they’ve had their children.  We all know that pregnancy boobs are the best.  They look great - they’re full and firm because of all of those hormones prepping us for breast feeding, and making us look like the bosomy goddesses we always dreamed of being one day.

Then, after most women have their children, they notice a significant dropping in their breasts due to a loss of breast tissue density and tone, as well as due to the loss of the volume they had when they were pregnant.  The same thing happens as we age, even if we do not have a baby.

There are natural ways to increase the tone and firmness, as well as regain the lift we once had before having children.  Througout this weblog and magazine, you will see several posts on this very subject.  Please see these to find out how you can naturally firm up, tone up, and get your boobs back to where they were pre-baby.

I just viewed an interesting forum thread

Posted in Natural Breast Enhancement & Enlargement, Breasts in the News by Breast News Girl on the May 29th, 2006

I just viewed an interesting forum thread on fake natural breast enhancement product review sites, and while I don’t want to totally slam any of these sites directly, I say this: definitely beware of any “review” sites which feature anything other than honest testimonials and manufactured-looking or very fuzzy looking before and after pictures.

It is very easy to doctor pictures today unfortunately, and a lot of unscrupulous sites will actually post women pre-op who’ve had breast augmentation surgery and then post-op, making it look like they got big breasts from taking their product when in fact they were surgically altered to get bigger boobs.

Sites that claim they are “MD” reviewed or medically tested and reviewed are probably hogwash. There MIGHT be one or two that really are approved or something - who am I to say, I’m no expert, but I don’t believe the claims of the ones that say “doctors” have reviewed and medically tested their products.

It just seems a little suspect. You might say, “well you have links to products in your blog” - yeah I do, but these are products that have a pretty good track record, and women have actually told me personally they’ve worked for them in a COMPREHENSIVE regimen for natural breast enhancement, including a good, balanced diet, breast massage and even the use of a topical breast growth serum.

Sure, they don’t work for everyone! But they can work when used in a COMPREHENSIVE REGIMEN for natural breast enlargement and enhancement…for sure. I do have to say, one of my favorite products, and one that many women have said has worked for them is Bountiful Breast.

Their pictures are not doctored, and they have a formula that is truly different from most of the others. So, if you want real before and afters, I suggest you look at their site then. I recommend Benefil for the serum, and Bountiful Breast for the oral formula.

Breast Augmentation Pills - What’s the Difference?

Posted in Herbal Breast Enhancement, Pills for Breast Enhancement by Breast News Girl on the May 29th, 2006

There seems to be a lot of confusion between what pills do what. In short, breast enhancement pills, breast enlargement pills and breast enlargement/enhancement supplements and augmentation pills are all one in the same.

We’ll see who goes by what, and see if there’s any difference. I’ll pick a few products and we’ll compare. Chances are, they have similar effects on the female body, they just go by different names as their manufacturer chooses… More on this to come

Breast Augmentation Questions - FAQ’s

Posted in Surgical Augmentation, Enhancement & Enlargement, Implant News by Breast News Girl on the May 28th, 2006

Breast Augmentation Questions - Your FAQs Thinking about have breast augmentation surgery? You most definitely have lots of questions, and you probably have the same questions that most women have who are thinking about undergoing this big-decision surgery.

Below you’ll find some of the most common questions women have about breast augmentation surgery, and their answers. Since there are so many, I’ve decided to make this a two or three parter.

1. Will the scar be visible? Yes. But in varying degrees, depending on a few things:

a. What kind of surgery (method of insertion) you choose. The areolar implant seems to leave the least amount of scarring.

b. How well you take care of your new breasts after you get them.

No tanning beds, keep your wounds clean, and use common sense, and your scars should heal well and be less noticeable. c. Your independent body chemistry. Some of us heal very well and very quickly with no scars. Others may not. This is probably genetics. Taking care of the sutures correctly will vastly improve your outcome.

2. Will I be put on prescription medication for the pain? Yes. You will most likely be put on a fairly powerful narcotic pain killer such as Darvocet or Percocet for at least the first 1-3 weeks after your surgery to relieve the pain. The pain can be fairly sharp at times, but within a few weeks the pain should fade to a dull soreness, and then to hardly nothing at all.

3. How much does breast augmentation cost? The going rate on breast augmentation surgery right now, including anesthesia costs and follow up doctors visits, is about $5,000.00 give or take a little depending on who you go to and where you get it done.

4. I’ve heard there is a risk of capsular contracture. What is that? Capsular contracture is the phenomena that occurs, sometimes years after augmentation surgery, where a hard scar tissue forms around the breast implant, making it somewhat painful, and making the breasts feel hard to the touch.

Some women can live with this condition, while others choose to have their implants removed, or have to have them removed due to the severity of the condition. More on Breast Augmentation Questions next post!

Halle Barry’s Still Got Great Breasts

Posted in Celebrity Breasts by Breast News Girl on the May 28th, 2006

I just got done watching the final installment of the XMen movies and saw that Halle’s breasts are still just as good as they used to be.  My boyfriend was mesmerized when they showed a scene of her walking/bouncing down the stairs, her perfect breasts still just as perky as ever.

A lot of women reportedly request breasts that look like hers when they go to get breast implants.  She probably has a personal trainer that helps her keep her boobs “up” where they need to be , seeing as though she is almost forty years old and still has firm looking boobs.

It’s really not fair - how does she have a gorgeous face AND great boobs.  Life just isn’t always fair I guess.

New Study Suggests Estrogen Only Pills Not Good for Menopausal Women

Posted in Breasts in the News, Other Feminization Supplements by Breast News Girl on the May 28th, 2006

In a new study released today, it was found that estrogen only hormone pills may have adverse effects on the women that take them for symptoms of menopause and hormonal imbalance such as hot flashes, mood swings and other discomforts of getting older as a woman.

Apparently, estrogen heavy pills raise older women’s risk of blood clots, but not as much as supplements that also contain progestin, according to the new study which was performed on approximately 10,000 women.

The study is the most thorough one to date on the effects of estrogen-only hormone pills on women over a certain age, for the relief mostly of menopause symptoms. The results were not compellingly startling since researchers had a clue that this was the case, but the findings add to a long list of complications found by the Women’s Health Initiative, a large research project sponsored by the US government that has contradicted widespread and long-held beliefs that hormones taken at menopause promote health and postpone age related discomforts and illnesses.

In 2002, the WHI linked estrogen-progestin pills to heart attacks and breast cancer and found that they also doubled the risk of blood clots. As a result, millions of U.S. women stopped taking supplements. Is anybody else thinking what I am? What if you’re on the pill?

Aren’t birth control pills composed of the exact same thing they’re talking about here - synthetic estrogens, progestins and other hormones? I don’t know, I do know though that I’d LOVE to go off the pill, but I’m too terrified of getting pregnant at this stage in my life. What’s a girl to do?

Breast Pills Don’t Work….Or Do They?

You’ve all heard this statement before. That breast pills just “don’t work”. Hmm..that’s quite a bold, blanket statement to make about any product, don’t you think? I’d like to challenge anyone who says that when clearly many, many women have experienced great success using natural breast pills, herbal breast pills and other breast pills like Bountiful Breast which work by natural means but only a little differently than herbs do.

Why then would you have tons of women coming out of the wordwork, sharing their stories of varying degrees of success with these products, when they just “don’t work”? I for one, have a little different viewpoint on the whole thing, because I have a weblog, and women have emailed me individually and told me about their success stories with various products.

Have women also emailed me and told me such and such a product isn’t working on them, even after months of use? Absolutely. I’m not here to blow 100% sunshine up your butt that breast pills will work on every single person that takes them. That’s just not realistic, and it wouldn’t be true.

I will however say that when they are used correctly and over a designated period of time, they do have pretty good success rates - especially if the particular formula you choose just happens to get along great with your chemistry - that’s the tricky part, finding a breast pill that works with your body type.

And hey if breast pills you choose don’t work, there’s always those fall-back money back guarantees usually. If you guys want reviews of some of the best products in natural breast enhancement that I HAVE been told work - directly by women, not just as advertisements from the companies themselves, but from real women who email me, or that I’ve been able to talk to personally.

Anyways, take a look at the product reviews to the left of this forum - there’s lots of good info, and at least it lets you shop around a little and see what others have to say about different breast pills…. Happy browsing! Related Posts: Bovine Ovary Supplements Breast Enlargement Pills Herbal Vitamins for Larger Breasts and Herbal Breast Supplements

Breast Augmentation Pills - the Difference, Continued

Posted in Natural Breast Enhancement & Enlargement, Pills for Breast Enhancement by Breast News Girl on the May 27th, 2006

So, anyways, a lot of women wonder what the difference is between all the different types of breast enlargement supplements, and some wonder if pills labeled as “breast augmentation pills” is better than a pill that labeled “enlargement” or “enhancement” rather than “augmentation”.

Well, as with the surgical form of breast augmentation, these words are all synonomous with one another. In other words, you are not going to get any more of a quality formula or necessarily a more effective formula if you buy supplements labeled “breast augmentation pills” versus any other of the afore-mentioned synonyms for the word augmentation.

Believe it or not, I know I promised you a few product examples that go by this specific name, but I think due to FDA regulations, there are not any supplements that are allowed to label them “augmentation pills” or something, because I can’t find any!

It’s probably because they don’t want to mislead and say they work for everybody to significantly augment the breasts or something like that. There are all kinds of regulations of the sort.

Can natural breast enhancement supplements help me regain firmness?

In a word, yes natural breast enhancers can help you regain the firmness in your breasts that you enjoyed as a youthful teen, or in your earlier years before having children if you have had children at some point. How do they do this?

Well, the creams can help promote tone, lift and firmness by simply stimulating the breasts and helping them to regain their shape, as well as through the special firming ingredients in the cream which are usually designed to deliver transdermally, and get to work on the deeper layers of tissue, helping to firm up the tissue, in other words to make it more dense again instead of limp and saggy.

Also, many of the herbal and non herbal supplements (see left side of this weblog for suggestions on both) are designed to add more lift and density by increasing the tissue density, as well as the actual volume, which always helps to create lift.

It is almost like creating a similar environment in your body to when you originally started to grow breasts when your hormones were more active. For more information and posts on natural breast supplements and breast pills, see the following posts : Breast Enhancing Pills Breast Gain Natural Breast Enhancement Breast Enlargement Creams Bust Fuel Review

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