breast cancer

CHCS provides an array of specialty clinics in several of our locations each month. Dr. David Cancelada, general surgeon, is our April Specialty Clinic Provider of the Month. Dr. Cancelada serves CHCS patients well because of his range of experience as a 25-year military veteran and specialized training in trauma surgery, tissue repair, and bariatric surgery to assist in weight loss. He is also known for a caring and calming presence that his patients appreciate.

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By Dr. David Cancelada: As I look back over my 30 years as a physician and surgeon, I am amazed at the advancements in medicine and science in the fight against cancer, particularly breast cancer. We are truly a blessed country with the best healthcare available on the planet.  When I began my training back in the 1980s, breast cancer was one of many dreaded cancers that left women severely disabled, disfigured, and with little hope to live more than 5 to 10 years from the time of their diagnosis....

Karen Elliott was not supposed to get breast cancer. She was not genetically predisposed and had only a 3 percent chance. But a routine mammogram in June 2007 found evidence of breast cancer.

Luckily, her cancer had not advanced past her lymph nodes. After a partial mastectomy, chemotherapy, and radiation, Karen looks back years later and is thankful that she took time for cancer screening.

“If I hadn’t had a mammogram, I don’t know how bad it would have been...