Many women who are diagnosed with breast cancer face the difficult decision of whether to have a lumpectomy with radiation or a mastectomy with reconstruction. With the availability of study results ...

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 ...

It's a decision more than 232,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer will have to make in this country this year, whether to have a lumpectomy or mastectomy. "I have girlfriends that have gone through ...

Breast cancer surgeons have tended not to push patients towards bilateral mastectomy, since data have long shown that the complete removal of both breasts doesn’t improve survival. New data from a ...

Despite a significant increase in women with unilateral breast cancer who received a bilateral mastectomy, this study found no survival benefit compared with other treatment options. Although removing ...

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THEN TO. IT’S IMPORTANT FOR US AS A WOMAN TO FEEL COMFORTABLE WITHIN HERSELF. WHEN ARVIN RAWLINGS WAS DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER AND FOUND OUT SHE NEEDED SURGERY, SHE WORRIED HOW IT WOULD MAKE HER ...