Women who are treated with a mastectomy for breast cancer often choose to have surgery to reconstruct the breast using an ...

​The debate between breast conservation surgery and mastectomy is no longer about which is superior, but about which is most ...

Lumpectomy followed by radiation is now a more common treatment for early-stage breast cancer than mastectomy. When a mastectomy is necessary, patients can choose between breast reconstruction or an ...

In the U.S., one in eight women will get breast cancer in their lifetime, and about half of them will have mastectomies. Many of those women opt to have their breasts surgically reconstructed, most ...

For patients undergoing breast reconstruction, residing in a food desert may be associated with an increased risk of certain ...

If you receive a breast cancer diagnosis, your healthcare provider may recommend a mastectomy alongside other treatments like radiation or chemotherapy. If you have a high cancer risk because of gene ...

Collaborators at WashU Medicine developed a tool to detect infections early among patients who have had breast reconstruction after cancer, potentially allowing for preemptive treatment that preserves ...

In my life, nipples, breasts and ovaries have been a very Jewish topic of conversation. Ten years ago, shortly before my mother died from ovarian cancer, I learned that I carried the BRCA1 mutation.