The diagnosis shattered the young mother’s world. At 36, Heather Tubigan of west suburban Chicago discovered an avocado ...

To assess more recent trends, Dr. Nelson and colleagues analyzed data on more than 1.5 million patients undergoing mastectomy for breast cancer from 2005 through 2017, based on three national ...

Thankfully, you might not have to accept numbness as your new norm. Resensation is a surgical technique that reconnects ...

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 and ...

Although prophylactic mastectomy significantly reduces the incidence and recurrence of breast cancer, little is known about women's information needs before the procedure. We surveyed 967 women ...

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 ...