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Share Your Experience: Revision Surgery
Help us ensure women’s access to care by filling out our short online survey. Your participation in the survey will take only a minute or two of your time, and will help us understand how we can solve the problem […]
Recommend Your Flat Closure Surgeon!
Now you can recommend your flat closure surgeon for the Directory with our easy online form.
Tina – Flat Has Been Freeing
Editor: It’s been some months since we published our last personal story of going flat. Today we hear from Tina Rattunde, a woman who tested positive for the BRCA2 mutation after watching multiple family members deal with breast cancer. She […]
Vermont Rep. Fegard Introduces Revision Bill
Breaking news! Vermont State Representative Charen Fegard has just introduced an historic bill requiring insurance coverage for revision surgery! Charen Fegard VT State Representative has just introduced a bill that will require healthcare stakeholders to decide on a clear coding and […]
NEW – International Translations of the “Flat is Beautiful” Brochure
NEW – nine international translations of the Flat is Beautiful brochure
Our Poster at SABCS 2019
We had a successful poster session at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) this past month, presenting a poster with the results of our original research, “Flat closure after mastectomy: are your patients satisfied with the results?” This research […]
Flat is Beautiful (Video)
A new resource is up on the website – the Flat is Beautiful video presentation, featuring many amazing flat advocates and advocacy projects. This 6 minute video is an introduction to going flat as a valid, beautiful mastectomy choice. Narrated […]
Coding for Flat Closure
Interested in helping us break down barriers that women going flat face when trying to achieve an aesthetic result they can live with? Coding for flat closure is one of those barriers, and Not Putting on a Shirt is on […]
Shared Decision Making: Protecting Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent
SDM is about patient autonomy and informed consent. Shared decision making (SDM) is a collaborative model of clinical decision-making that ensures the patient’s values and priorities are centered during the decision making process. It represents a philosophy of clinical practice […]
Demand Parity for Flat Closure – Amend the WHCRA
A new project at Not Putting on a Shirt Sign the petition or write a letter to your legislators! What is the WHCRA? The Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act (WHCRA) is national legislation passed in 1998 which required most […]
Cleveland Clinic Researchers Publish Paper on Aesthetic Flat Closure
You read that right. Cleveland Clinic researchers, in partnership with the University of Toledo, have been researching flat closure. Cleveland Clinic y’all. This week in research to #putflatonthemenu … a collaborative paper from researchers out of the The University of Toledo and Cleveland Clinic just published […]
FDA Issues Landmark Recommendations for Implant Manufacturers
Hot off the press – FDA is listening to women’s voices on breast implants. Today, FDA issued a recommendation to implant manufacturers that include many of the items that Breast Implant Safety Alliance and others have been pushing for: a black box […]