Both women successful municipality for San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium are helping patients navigate journey

Cancer is simply a dense word. And a Texas surgeon and bosom crab subsister privation to marque definite recently diagnosed patients don’t consciousness alone.

SAN ANTONIO – Cancer is simply a dense word. And a Texas surgeon and bosom crab subsister privation to marque definite recently diagnosed patients don’t consciousness alone.

“[When I was diagnosed]…time stopped. The satellite stopped,” Stacey Tinianov said.

Tinianov is among the hundreds successful San Antonio this week for the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. She’s attending arsenic a diligent advocate. Her travel began successful 2013, erstwhile her parent was diagnosed with bosom cancer, and months aft that, she received her ain diagnosis.

“When they did the mastectomy, I…had 2 invasive tumors. So, it was classified arsenic a signifier 1B,” Tinianov said.

After her experience, Tinianov learned it was important to inquire doctors tons of questions. She encourages patients to bash the same.

“The astir important portion for idiosyncratic who is recently diagnosed is not ‘What targeted therapy tin I have?’ It’s ‘How tin I get the champion diagnostic investigating to spot whether oregon not there’s a people that tin play a relation successful my crab treatment.’”

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Oncologists often stress that each crab diagnosis is different, and that the severity of the crab determines the benignant of attraction that’s champion for the patient. Some volition necessitate chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, oral medication, oregon a operation of therapies. A bosom surgeon from the Baylor College of Medicine advises patients to get much than 1 aesculapian opinion, since treatments tin vary.

“Because of the advances successful cause treatments, particularly, what we’re trying to bash is shrink down the crab first, and that tin mean we bash smaller operations connected the breast, and smaller operations successful the… armpit…Therefore, we person little impact, a little cosmetic effect, often connected the bosom and thorax wall,” Dr. Alastair Thompson said.

As for Tinianov, she’s been successful remission since January 2014. Now, she dedicates her clip to helping crab patients navigate their journeys.

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WATCH BELOW: KSAT spoke with Houston bosom surgeon Dr. Alastair Thompson, who answered spectator questions and shared proposal for recently diagnosed bosom crab patients connected Day 3 of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

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KSAT spoke with Houston bosom surgeon Dr. Alastair Thompson, who answered spectator questions and shared proposal for recently diagnosed bosom crab patients connected Day 3 of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

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Stephania Jimenez is an anchor connected The Nightbeat. She began her journalism vocation successful 2006, aft graduating from Syracuse University. She's anchored astatine NBC Philadelphia, KRIS successful Corpus Christi, NBC Connecticut and KTSM successful El Paso. Although calved and raised successful Brooklyn, Stephania considers Texas home. Stephania is bilingual! She speaks Spanish.