Shirley: My name is Shirley. I'm 40... yeah, I'm 48 this year. It kind of flew by. I have
two children. I'm married. My children are grown.
I was diagnosed in August of '05 with breast cancer. They diagnosed it as DCIS
and did a lump biopsy which led to a...
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Shirley: My name is Shirley. I'm 40... yeah, I'm 48 this year. It kind of flew by. I have
two children. I'm married. My children are grown.
I was diagnosed in August of '05 with breast cancer. They diagnosed it as DCIS
and did a lump biopsy which led to a lumpectomy which lead to a mastectomy
which brought me here to Doctor Ditesheim for reconstruction.
With the procedure I had chosen with Dr. Ditesheim, it was very advantageous to
do it all in a one-step procedure. That way, one anesthesia eliminated that extra
step. Everything about Dr. Ditesheim and working with him has always
exceeded my expectations. He's always been very thorough, very conscientious
of his decision making. You can always tell he thinks through every process
before he gets involved into it, always looks at my best interest even when it
came to do the latissimus flap.
One of the staff members here in his office had said a lot of women are very
concerned with different side effects and everything, of losing strength
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