October 2004
Volume 1 - Number 2


October: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Breast Reconstruction


Deborah Barnes, a 53-year-old paralegal in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, was terribly worried about the breast cancer in her family. Her grandmother died of cancer in the 1960s and, more recently, her mother and sister both suffered from the dreaded ailment. Eventually, alas, cancer developed in one of Deborah's breasts.

“The hardest phrase you'll ever hear is when a doctor says: ‘You have breast cancer,'” Deborah told CosmeticSurgery.com. “Your whole world stops..."


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  • 2.8 Million: Number of Botox injections given in the U.S. in ’03.
  • 6.9 million: People who had a minimally invasive procedure in ’03.
  • 8.7 Million: People who had some cosmetic procedure in ’03.
  • 10 million: The estimated number of cosmetic patients who will have gone under the knife by the end of ’04.
  • 1.9 million: number of cosmetic surgery procedures done in ’01.

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    J-Lo (Jennifer Lopez) really spiced things up when she arrived at an Emmy award ceremony with a curvy, toned rear that made the media, her fans and just about everybody else literally drool...



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