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The Purity Bridge Breast Awareness event review

The Purity Bridge team was thrilled to host our annual Breast Awareness Event. This has become a regular fixture in the calendar of many women from the wider Tunbridge Wells area and beyond and its reputation continues to grow

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As ever, the evening was a huge success and well attended with standing room only.  With the help of our kind volunteer Ruth, Mr Haresh Devalia, Consultant Breast & Oncoplastic Surgeon demonstrated how to examine your breasts correctly.  He pointed out the signs to lookout for and the changes that can occur if breast cancer develops. He gave a fascinating talk and stunned us all with a relook of an all too familiar Rembrandt painting…who knew that we would be able to diagnose breast cancer in a famous painting so many decades later?

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Purity Bridge Consultant Plastic Surgeons, Nora Nugent and Marc Pacifico continued the evening using their expertise to explain the options available to women for post-breast cancer reconstruction, and restorative breast surgery – the options following childbirth or weight loss.

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The messages from the evening were clear – check your breasts regularly, take part in screening mammograms when the time comes, and seek help and advice from your GP early if you suspect any changes.

Purity Bridge Team