LONG BRANCH – When Karen Rogers had a breast removed to beat cancer, it saved her life. But, when she had the missing breast rebuilt, the Neptune woman felt like she got her life back.
“I feel like a person; I feel whole,” says Rogers, 50, who had breast reconstruction last year at Monmouth Medical Center in Long Branch, where she was treated for her cancer.
Rogers and her plastic surgeon, Gregory Greco, D.O., chief of plastic surgery and director of the general surgery clerkship at Monmouth Medical Center, will help educate state legislators and aides tomorrow about the issue by participating in a Breast Reconstruction Awareness (BRA) Day event at the Statehouse in Trenton from 9 a.m. to noon. BRA Day is a collaborative effort by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, The Plastic Surgery Foundation and the New Jersey Society of Plastic Surgeons.
Rogers and Greco will join other patients and leading physicians in speaking with legislators about the importance of breast reconstruction for breast cancer patients. The event is especially timely, as October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
The Jacqueline M. Wilentz Comprehensive Breast Center is a recognized leader in providing the most advanced array of breast health services for women concerned about breast health. The Wilentz Center and its satellite locations across Monmouth and Ocean counties provide convenient mammography screenings with no appointment required.
Additional information is available by calling n the Jacqueline M. Wilentz Comprehensive Breast Center, call 732-923-7700.
