Breast Cancer:What You May Be Feeling

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Breast Cancer

  1. Start Here
  2. Risks and Symptoms
  3. Breast Cancer Tests
  4. Understanding Your Diagnosis
  5. Choosing Treatment
  6. What You May Be Feeling
  7. Surgery and Radiation
  8. Drugs and Side Effects
  9. Your Body Image
  10. Metastatic Breast Cancer
  11. Life After Breast Cancer
  12. Survivor Stories

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I See Breast Cancer as a Journey Through a Tunnel

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"I see women come out of the tunnel and I see them getting back to real life" (1:53)
Breast surgeon Amber Guth says breast cancer is a process that may change her patients, but often for the better.

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Dr. Amber Guth, a breast surgeon at NYU Medical Center, describes the experience of breast cancer as a journey through a tunnel. She sees women coming out the other end into daylight, inevitably changed. Seeing breast cancer that way sometimes helps her patients with their fears.