Dr. Lynn Jeffers - Plastic Surgery: Oxnard, California

11/10/2019

A promising new vaccine could one day be a flu shot against breast cancer.

08/03/2018

Dr. Jennifer Ashton discusses the potential dangers of the plastic surgery trend that is skyrocketing in popularity, as a board of experts issues a new and urgent warning.

06/25/2018

The "Network of Enigmatic Exceptional Responders" aims to gather masses of data on nearly everything about these rare cancer patients, in hopes of finding patterns to help others.

02/26/2018

http://www.kurzweilai.net/cancer-vaccine-eliminates-tumors-in-mice?utm_content=buffera397c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Effects of in situ vaccination with CpG and anti-OX40 agents. Left: Mice genetically engineered to spontaneously develop breast cancers in all 10 of their

01/15/2018

Lynn Jeffers, MD, FACS, Chief Medical Officer, St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital, discusses the new St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital.

06/18/2017

Very interesting!

Jayatilaka and a team at Johns Hopkins discovered the biochemical mechanism that tells cancer tells to break off and spread throughout the body, a process called metastasis. Some 90 percent of cancer deaths are caused when cancer metastasizes. They also found that two existing, FDA-approved drugs ca...

01/17/2017

Decisions re:breast cancer treatment and reconstruction go beyond just statistics. Why some breast cancet patients opt for double mastectomy.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/elaineschattner/2014/07/29/its-not-just-about-survival-why-some-breast-cancer-patients-opt-for-prophylactic-contralateral-mastectomy/

Most women do well, for many years, after the smallest surgery possible to remove an invasive breast tumor. But the decision isn’t easy.

10/10/2016

Interesting. http://www.sciencealert.com/breasts-have-their-own-microbiome-and-it-could-influence-your-cancer-risk

You’ve probably heard that every human on Earth has a unique set of bacterial colonies living in their gut, and this ‘microbiome’ has been linked to everything from stoke and chronic fatigue risk, to your ability to control your appetite and weight.

10/10/2016

Photo collection by Tall Poppy Photography

10/04/2016

Lab Report Shelley Zalewski August 24, 2016 6:00 AM Choosing Double Mastectomy, Even If Not Medically Necessary When cancer invades one breast, many women opt to remove both. Two new studies highlight the trend toward elective double mastectomy. An increasing number of women diagnosed with cancer in...

09/15/2016

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09/09/2016

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