Breast Cancer Radiation Tattoo

[box_dark]Radiation Tattoo a Permanent Reminder of Battle against Breast Cancer[/box_dark]

 

Breast cancer happens to be the most widespread form of cancer in women all over the world. The major cause of death among women from cancer on a global level, breast cancer allows women to live for almost 5 years since diagnosis, which is mainly due to treatment and detection.

Breast cancer awareness month is organized to spread the word of breast cancer among women. The initiative helps women around the world to become more aware about the symptoms and treatment of the cancer. However, for survivors of this dreadful disease, the awareness never completely goes away. A few of the reminders can be as permanent as tattoos.

[box_dark]Survivor Story[/box_dark]

Psychotherapist by profession and breast cancer survivor, Vivian Schwabish admits that she considers it to be sort of a battle scar. In spite of being a young mom in the prime of her health, Vivian was shocked when her doctor told her that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer in the year 2002. She states that there was a certain phase in her life when she was still busy raising her children and came to realize that she could die.

She promptly made up her mind to undergo the processes of mastectomy and chemotherapy, followed by radiation therapy. Schwabish explains that you are subjected to the treatment over the course of six long weeks, five days in each week, since they want to ensure that you get treated in the precise spot.

[box_dark]Radiation Scars: Yay or Nay?[/box_dark]

Her doctors had to make five dark marks, each about 1 millimeter in length, in various regions of her body. She reveals that these marks, commonly known as radiation tattoos, are beloved of some women. They consider it to be their scars of battle; constantly reminding them that they were able to make it through a tough time in their lives.

However, some women hate them and like nothing more than to be able to get rid of them as fast as possible, states Jennifer Mundt, a doctor at the Delete Tattoo Removal and Laser Salon in Phoenix. They remove radiation tattoos at no charge for the women who do not want a constant reminder of their ordeal on their body. Mundt explains that it is the job of the laser to hit the ink, blow it up into tiny pieces and then it is the job of the body to absorb it.

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