Dr. do I really have cancer?

Watch Dr. Harness, Pres. American Society of Breast Surgeons. St. Joseph Hospital Comprehensive Breast Center in Orange, CA.

Dr. Jay Harness:
It is overwhelming to be told that you would have cancer no matter what kind of cancer you have. So, there is always doubt in patient’s mind. Do I really have cancer? A good center for the treatment of any cancer will always double check everything including having two pathologists look at slides. Here in St. Joseph Hospital Comprehensive Breast Center, we review slides of patients from the outside. There has to be a double check on everything, but part of that question is just part of the overwhelming shock that the patient has that she has cancer.

Do I really have it I feel fine? I don’t have any pain. I don’t have any discomfort. That is an important lesson for breast cancer because the vast majority of patients with breast cancer other than perhaps the one from the breast really do not have any other symptoms.

Bio:
Jay K. Harness, MD, FACS is recognized nationally and internationally for his work in the fields of breast and endocrine surgery. Over his career, he has established three multi-disciplinary breast centers including the nation’s first academic multi-disciplinary at the University of Michigan in 1985. In 2003, Dr. Harness established the St. Joseph Hospital Comprehensive Breast Center in the city of Orange, California, which is, located Orange County. Over the years, Dr. Harness has held various academic appointments including at the University of Michigan where he attended medical school and did all of his surgical training as well as at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, the University of California, Davis, the University of California, San Francisco, and now currently at the University of California, Irvine.

Dr. Harness is the immediate past-President of The American Society of Breast Surgeons and is President-elect of Breast Surgery International. He has also served as Chair of the Board of Directors of The American Society of Breast Surgeons, Secretary-Treasurer and President of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons. Dr. Harness is a member of the Medical Advisory Board of EmpowHer. He is well-published with 80 articles and book chapters in the medical literature. He has also been the lead editor of two textbooks: Breast Cancer-Collaborative Management (1988) and Ultrasound and Surgical practice: Basic Principles and Clinical Applications (2001).

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