Flat Denial
Survivornet: “To Reconstruct or Not”
Read Kathy’s experience with cancer and making the choice to go flat only to be intentionally denied by her surgeon in 2003.
Feature Friday at Surviving Breast Cancer.org – “Going Flat”
Feature aboutgoing flat, flat denial and #aestheticflatclosure at SurvivingBreastCancer.org
Pioneers in Flat Advocacy: Stephanie Astalos-Jones (FLAT Is Where It’s At)
A blog series designed to highlight and amplify the voices of the flat advocates who blazed the trail and laid the foundation for those that followed.
Flat Denial: Who is Most at Risk?
We’re All at Risk, Right? Our research, presented last year at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, has identified several […]
Julie – “It Isn’t Right, But It Is My Reality”
Editor: Julie H. Rose knew that she wanted to go flat from the moment she was diagnosed. And yet, her […]
Brenda – “I should not have to feel embarrassed or humiliated by my own body, ever.”
Brenda tells her story of going flat and needing multiple surgeries to get an acceptable result.
Call to Stakeholders to Speak Out Against Medical Assault
A call to stakeholders to speak out against medical battery.
$$$ Conflict of Interest for Flat Closure $$$
Denying a patient a flat closure at their initial surgery can result in more profit for the surgeon performing the revision to “fix” it.
Shouldn’t CANCER be your toughest fight when you’re fighting breast cancer?
Flat denial can be even more traumatic than the mastectomy itself, and must end.
What You Can Do to Protect Yourself
Kimberly Bowles answers: how can patients facing mastectomy protect ourselves from flat denial?
“Flat Denial”: Stand Up, Speak Out, and Protect Patients
I have struggled to come up with a label for the malpractice of leaving extra tissue on a mastectomy patient’s […]
Cindy – Her surgeon joked about overriding her wishes to be flat
Cindy tells her survivor story of choosing to go flat after mastectomy and suffering intentional flat denial at the hands of an unethical surgeon.
Cassandra “My surgeon was a woman…”
Cassie tells her story of flat denial and dog ear removal at revision.
Suzie – “Deflated” after explant
Suzie’s story of flat denial after breast implant removal – she was left with pockets of skin instead of a flat closure.
She asked to be flat- Shelly’s Survivor Story
Shelly tells her story of deciding to go flat after mastectomy and being denied a flat closure.
Why She’s Not Putting on a Shirt, and Why We’re Walking With Her
The story of how Kimberly Bowles, a mother of two from Pittsburgh. ended up protesting topless on a sidewalk in Cleveland.