Please click below to view the Surgical Procedure Videos: *Warning* These are actual surgical procedure videos.  The Videos are not intended to be viewed by Children under 18 years old.

What is Breast Cancer?- 1 in 8 women will develop Breast Cancer in their lifetime.  View this short video to learn more about Breast Cancer.

Sentinal Node Biopsy-A Sentinel Lymph Node (SLN) Biopsy, the procedure helps the doctor determine the extent to which the disease is spreading within the body, and develop an appropriate treatment plan. It also has fewer patient side effects than standard lymph node removal. Genesis, through its Center for Breast Health, was one of the first hospitals in the country to participate in a study of the effectiveness of the procedure, which now is an accepted standard of care for women diagnosed with breast cancer.

Breast Reconstruction With Tissue Expansion-OR-Live aired a breast reconstruction with tissue expansion video from Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York. This procedure was be performed by Dimitri J. Koumanis, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, Albany Medical College and Jerome D. Chao, MD, FACS, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Chief of Division of Plastic Surgery – Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, Albany Medical College. Dr. Koumanis and Dr. Chao will perform the tissue expansion using Veritas® Collagen Matrix (”Veritas”), an innovative biologic material which remodels into the tissue it is used to repair. Veritas is a tested, FDA cleared and exciting alternative to currently available synthetic and biologic meshes.

Breast Reconstruction: Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator-New York – Advances in breast reconstruction techniques have dramatically improved the options for breast cancer treatment. At Beth Israel Medical Center, our renowned reconstructive plastic surgeons are using the DIEP (deep inferior epigastric perforator) flap technique in which the surgeon removes skin and fat from the abdomen and transplants it to the mastectomy site. Unlike older procedures, the DIEP flap doesn’t require the removal of abdominal muscle when forming the breast mound. The skin and fat along with the small blood vessels that go into them are detached and reconnected in the breast area so that the tissues can live up there. In addition to an improvement in the abdominal contour, another benefit of DIEP flap surgery is faster recovery and less abdominal discomfort.

IntraBeam®: Intraoperative Radiation-Join surgical oncologist Dr. Richard C. Hoefer and radiation oncologists Dr. Michael Miller and Dr. Song Kang for a live lumpectomy surgery to remove early stage breast cancer and prepare the surgical site for IntraBeam®, intraoperative radiation therapy that occurs right in the operating room.

Nipple Sparing Mastectomy with Reconstruction- Cleveland – Watch surgeons from University Hospitals Case Medical Center perform a nipple sparing mastectomy with complete reconstruction.  This breast-preserving procedure provides patients undergoing mastectomy with an excellent cosmetic outcome. Julian Kim, MD, FACS, and Hooman Soltanian, MD, will be available during this interactive panel discussion to answer any viewer questions.