Breast cancer treatment has evolved significantly over the past few decades, moving from radical removal approaches to more personalized and tissue-preserving techniques. Today, surgeons no longer ...

Unexpected numbness, “electric zaps” and emotional roller coasters: two breast surgeons explain what patients might experience after lumpectomy or mastectomy ...

One incision. One surgery. A new robotic nipple-sparing mastectomy at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital combines breast ...

Women diagnosed with breast cancer are almost immediately confronted with treatment decisions. If a surgical oncologist gave a choice between a lumpectomy and a mastectomy to remove a tumor, that's ...

Long-term randomized evidence supports oncologic equivalence between lumpectomy plus breast conservation and mastectomy for appropriate candidates, despite persistent patient fears favoring maximal ...

Nearly everyone with non-metastatic breast cancer has their tumor removed. For metastatic breast cancer, surgery is sometimes done to help relieve symptoms. Breast surgery is very personal, and we ...

A breast cancer surgeon and plastic surgeon share advice for navigating a confusing and emotional time ...

While mastectomy is often a necessary and life-saving treatment option for many women with breast cancer, the surgery may contribute to worse sexual health, body image, and several other physical and ...

Losing your breasts comes with a lot of baggage. After Angelina Jolie announced her preventative double mastectomy in 2013, women increasingly sought breast cancer screenings, gene testing and ...

It can be devastating to be given a breast cancer diagnosis. Once the shock wears off, most patients want to do what they can to raise their odds of survival, torpedoing the chances they’ll ever go ...

Experts are starting to question whether identifying ductal carcinoma in situ as cancer leads to unnecessary interventions ...

Health experts at a seminar have said that 1,200 patients with breast cancer have undergone surgery at Rangpur Medical ...