At 36, Heather Tubigan of west suburban Chicago discovered an avocado seed-sized lump in her left breast. It was a malignant ...

After two bouts of breast cancer ... from a mastectomy; radiation treatment from her prior breast cancer had led to a dangerous breast angiosarcoma, a kind of cancer that forms in the blood ...

For women undergoing breast reconstruction after mastectomy, older age is associated with small but significant increases in certain complications, reports a study in the January issue of Plastic ...

The results indicate that most women with intermediate-risk breast cancer can safely avoid CWI following mastectomy, said Ian Kunkler, MB BChir, of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland ...

While breast reconstruction can cosmetically rebuild the look and form of the chest, Lindau said many mastectomy patients still experience a sense of physical and psychological loss akin to that ...

Triple-negative breast cancer recurrence after a mastectomy is one of the most aggressive types of cancer. It's harder to treat than other types of breast cancer because it lacks the three most common ...

But cancer it was: grade three, stage three, triple negative breast cancer, to be precise. Treatment involved 16 cycles of intravenous chemotherapy, followed by a mastectomy, 15 rounds of ...

Choosing between a single mastectomy and double (bilateral) mastectomy for breast cancer can be challenging, and the right decision is different for each person. Medical concerns to weigh include your ...

Breast cancer is not a single disease but multiple ... As screening methods become more sensitive and able to detect smaller, earlier forms of cancer, including DCIS, approaches such as active ...