the surgeon may be able to conserve some of the skin and/or nipple normally lost during a mastectomy. The choice of what surgery is best for you can be a difficult decision to make. After reviewing ...

Women with a type of low-risk cancer might not have to rush aggressive treatment, doctors say.

Some physicians who were not involved in the research cautioned that the study period was too short to draw firm conclusions, The Wall Street Journal reported. Researchers acknowledged longer-term ...

Breast cancer is more than a diagnosis — it ... the signs of sensation beginning to return within several months after surgery, with feeling continuing to improve for up to two years.

Remarkably, Burney made a full recovery from the mastectomy, and went on to live for another 29 years. She published her fifth and final novel, The Wanderer, three years after her surgery ...

Some people decide not to have breast reconstruction. You can find out more about breast reconstruction surgery after a mastectomy on the Cancer Research UK website.

A study published in the January issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, reports that older age is linked to a slight but significant increase in certain complications following ...

Recurrence rates after standard conventional therapy (surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy) are around 25%. Recurrence Rates in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Patients Surgical removal of ...

There was no significant difference in 10-year overall survival between women who received radiation after surgery and those ...

After the single mastectomy in early 2022 ... this means patients waiting for delayed reconstructive surgery are waiting longer for the care they need.” Analysis by Susie Forrest, Health ...

A coffee shop has been criticised for sharing a Facebook status in support of a transgender employee's double mastectomy ... After initially waiting on the NHS for his "top surgery" to remove ...