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Breast cancer
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Making Decisions About Breast Cancer Treatment

Here is a comprehensive guide to the decision-making process written by a breast cancer survivor and professional writer who’s written several stories for Healthy You magazine. More >>

Your Breast Cancer Diagnosis
The region’s most experienced Cancer Center is here for you More >>

Improved Treatments for a Better Quality of Life
Advances in treatment have led to an increase in the survival rate for breast cancer. More >>

Breast Cancer Consultation Service
Women with breast cancer can get a second opinion, seeing a medical oncologist, radiation oncologist and surgeon on the same day. More >>

How Research and Discovery Can Help You
Breast cancer treatment has made great strides in recent years. You have more reason to hope than ever before. The reason is research and discovery. More >>

Prevention and Early Detection of Breast Cancer
If you are at average risk for breast cancer, you may be able to lower your risk More >>

Breast Health Services
At LVH, our breast cancer detection rates are among the best in the country, thanks in part to state-of-the-art mammography equipment and highly skilled mammography technologists. More >>

Highest Accreditation Available From Commission on Cancer
Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network's (LVHHN) Cancer Center has achieved Network Cancer Program accreditation, the highest available from the American College of Surgeons' Commission on Cancer (CoC). More >>

There Really Is a Difference in Cancer Centers
By making it possible for specialists to work as a true team, our Cancer Centers give you a better chance. More >>

The Same Quality Cancer Care at Two Convenient Locations
Lehigh Valley Hospital has comprehensive cancer centers in Allentown and Bethlehem, so you can receive care close to home or work. More >>

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Breast cancer

Ongoing Research
Click here for a list of clinical trials in which we are currently participating

Ask Our Expert
Q: I heard the drug, Evista may reduce the risk for breast cancer—is that true? Who can benefit from this medication?
A: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Evista (the brand name for raloxifene previously used to treat osteoporosis) to help prevent breast cancer in postmenopausal women who are at high-risk for the disease. If you think you’re at increased risk for breast cancer, you should talk with your doctor about whether or not this medication—if any—is right for you.

My Story
I wouldn’t have to lose my breast.
“Saving my life was the most important thing to me. But it was very appealing when Dr. Harper said I wouldn’t have to lose my breast.”

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Lehigh Valley Hospital has campuses in Allentown and Bethlehem, Pa. and serves the Pennsylvania communities of Easton, Doylestown, Quakertown, Hazelton, Lehighton, Perkasie, Pottstown, Pottsville, Reading, Scranton, Wilkes Barre, Stroudsburg, and the Poconos and also Phillipsburg and Flemington, N.J., and western New Jersey. You don't have to travel to Philadelphia or New York for quality health care.

 
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