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 ...

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 ...

Tina Willits, now 53, thought she had just two years to live. Today, she is cancer-free — and she wants the world to know ...

and 40% undergoing mastectomy. Only 1.82% had endoscopy-assisted breast surgery. In addition, 45.4% of patients had palpable tumors and 54.5% did not. Percentages may not total 100% due to missing ...

I had no family history of cancer, but I knew what it was when I found the lump in my breast in 1987 ... I'd had so many gruelling operations - a mastectomy, 12 sessions of chemotherapy and ...

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 ...

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 ...