The Surgeon

In this video series, Dr. Rebecca Zuurbier discusses who is at risk for breast cancer and how it is diagnosed. She also covers the different stages of Breast cancer and discusses the latest advancements in treatments.

So like a true hero, you did the right thing: you registered to be a donor and put yourself in position to save someone’s life. Now the call has come – time to spring into action, Hero!

Nymox Pharma has developed a new drug to more effectively treat prostate enlargement, a common and troublesome affliction of men in mid to later age

After his first weight-loss surgery three years ago, Paul Martin considered getting a tattoo designed around the four small surgical scars on his side—say, a golf green.

After a second weight-loss surgery in December, Martin didn’t have any new scars to add to the design. “I woke up with just a slight sore throat,” he says about the procedure, which took about two hours. “There wasn’t any pain because there weren’t any incisions.”

Martin, 53 years old, is among the first patients at Stanford Hospital & Clinics to be treated using what is called natural orifice surgery. In his case, the entire surgery was performed through his throat.

“We went down his throat with a device that looks like a regular endoscope, with a ‘duckbill’ on the end,” the surgeon, John Morton, MD, said. “In the duckbill is a tiny instrument like a sewing machine, with a needle that has plastic sutures.”

Morton, who is also associate professor of surgery, stitched pleats in the stoma, the opening between the patient’s intestine and the small pouch that had been created in the earlier surgery. He then tightened the pleats around the endoscope, reducing the stoma from 20 millimeters to 14, helping to control the amount of food Martin could digest.
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In a rare case, a baby was born with 12 fully functional fingers and toes. Julie Chen spoke with the parents of the baby and his doctor.

Conjoined twins Alex and Angel Mendoza from Phoenix, Ariz. were successfully separated after more than 12 hours in surgery, reports Dr. Debbye Turner Bell.

Studies prove that mammography saves lives. The screening tool can detect breast cancer early when it’s still curable. But for the thousands of women with dense breast tissue, mammography is not enough. These women may need additional screening tests such as MRI‘s. Now, researchers at Mayo Clinic have developed new technology that can spot breast tumors in dense tissue at a fraction of the cost of MRI’s.

An American man who suffered from AIDS appears to have been cured of the disease 20 months after receiving a targeted bone marrow transplant normally used to fight leukemia, his doctors said.