In the News
WWL-TV Breastoration Foundation Interview
Fox News WVUE Interview
WWL-TV Eyewitness News
Reconstructive Options
and American Cancer Society Making Strides
Meg Farris / WWL-TV Eyewitness News
Lymphedema Treatment
New Orleans now has the first hospital in the country
with a complete and total treatment program for a condition
that many patients don't like to talk about, often leaving them suffering in silence.
New Orleans Living
"Special Treatment"
by Henry Alpert
...New Orleans has a brand-new hospital. With 17 beds, the St. Charles Surgical Hospital is affiliated with the adjacent Center for Restorative Breast Surgery (CRBS) and dedicates itself exclusively to breast reconstruction surgeries, making it the first hospital of its kind in the United States…and the world.
Inside Northside
In Better Health
by Brenda Breck
Groundbreaking surgical treatment for lymphedema. At the Center for Restorative Breast Surgery and the St. Charles Surgical Hospital in New Orleans, patients now have access to the cutting-edge vascularized lymph node transfer procedure for lymphedema treatment.
Gambit Weekly's Best of New Orleans Feature
On her 52nd birthday, Rita "Cookie" Relan of Slidell learned she would have to have a mastectomy to treat cancer in the ducts of her breast. In November 2006, a month after her diagnosis, Dr. Agustin Suarez, a breast surgeon with Hemataology & Oncology Specialists, removed the affected breast tissue, and plastic surgeons Drs. Frank J. DellaCroce and Scott Sullivan, of the Center for Restorative Breast Surgery (CRBS) in New Orleans, rebuilt her breast using fat from her own body - all during the same surgery.
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More than 180,000 women in the U.S. will face a diagnosis of breast cancer this year the American Cancer Society estimates. Each case will be unique, but doctors who treat the disease say most of these women have one wish in common: To get through their treatment and put the unhappy episode behind them.
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Healthy Living at Memorial. Perfect Symmetry.
Southern Woman Magazine. Abreast of the Issue, Reconstructive Procedures for Cancer Survivors. Wolgelenter, Nina.
"I have learned so much since being diagnosed with breast cancer. It seems I spent four months crying and frantically researching..."
"Due to circumstances I traveled from Montana to New Orleans alone for the procedure. I never felt alone. Everyone..."
"Surgery was on March 4. On the 5th I was walking the hall in the ICU. There was very little discomfort..."
I went to the local garment shop, Bertha Church, and mentioned that I was going to have reconstruction after mastectomy...
