The fight against breast cancer has been increasingly successful with early intervention and treatments. One of the most important messages that breast cancer support groups can help spread is that you can survive breast cancer and with the help of new treatment options, you can win your battle. In addition, now with the support of new legislation breast reconstruction is available for all patients who have insurance. Breast reconstruction offers the chance for those who have had cancer surgery to return to their pre-cancer breasts.

Pink Revolution is helping raise funds with the UMass Memorial Medical Center Foundation for a vaser liposuction machine to be used at the UMass Memorial Medical Center. Vaser liposuction is helpful for physicians when performing breast reconstruction surgeries.

This procedure uses your own natural body fat from your belly, back, thighs and buttocks to be used in reconstructing your breasts. Returning to a natural body look will help reduce the emotional toll that breast cancer takes on women. Liposuction price may be sometimes hefty, but you’ll be surprised at the number of people who still wants to undergo this procedure.

The fight against breast cancer is an all-encompassing journey that will take patients and their families through an emotional roller coaster. Any technology or healthy lifestyle that can be used to reduce that emotional toll is a good investment in our society. Pink Link as a community is leading the fight against breast cancer and they encourage all to join. With the available new imaging technology and the advances in breast reconstruction, we can all lend a hand in helping patients fight and win their battle against breast cancer. As a society, we should stand behind all of those that are fighting breast cancer and we should encourage our legislators and scientific community to keep working towards early detection and treatment of breast cancer .

Aromatherapy – The use of essential oils to elevate mood or to calm down and release stress. For years that has been the home made therapy for anxiety. Those who specialize in aromatherapy believe that the fragrance in the essential oils stimulate the nerve in the nose.

Our sense of smell is connected directly to the memory and emotion parts in the brain. That results in a change of mood. As of yet, there is very little scientific proof that this method really works.

Medication – There are the short term drugs that help overcome an occasional anxiety such as Xanax and Valium, but they are helpful for a measured time only and form dependency. The dosage has to be adjusted with repeated use.

There are other medication that try to address the problem, not the symptom, and change the chemistry of the brain, which doctors think causes the anxiety. They are the anti-depressants and there are many of them on the market. SSRI (selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors) such as Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil. There are the SNRI (selective serotonin and norepinepherine inhibitors) such as Effexor, Cymbalta and others, and there are the tricyclic antidepressants.

A medical professional is the one to decide which of them will help in a specific case. Sometimes a trial of more than one is needed to get the required affect. They have to be taken under the supervision of a doctor, build up to the recommended dosage and not to be stopped and once but gradually wean the body off them.

Therapy – Cognitive behavior therapy may assist in controlling anxiety and panic attacks. Understanding where it comes from, the behavior that causes it, may help prevent future attacks. Usually takes a long time and is combined with medication to allow the sufferer to exit the panic stage and confront his problems.

There are individual therapies, group therapies or hypnosis therapy to help the person relax and the doctor get to the root of the problem without the patient stopping it when it gets too painful emotionally.

Shock therapy – Used in only to most acute cases when the other, more traditional therapies did not help. The purpose of this electro-shock is to “wake up” the brain and make it function as it was meant to function.