Breast cancer death rates have been declining since 1989, but the disease remains the second leading cause of cancer death in women. And incidence rates have increased slightly in recent years. For ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . City of Hope has opened a multicenter randomized trial to assess the safety and effectiveness of ...

While preparing for a double mastectomy surgery to treat breast cancer, Lynn Simoncini discovered seat belts would be painful for her surgery incision and chemotherapy port, which are nestled under ...

"The level of trauma I think is really gonna be difficult for me," said the 'Getting Organized with the Home Edit' star Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The ...

Doru Paul, MD, is a board-certified oncologist and hematologist. He is an associate professor of clinical medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College. Breast cancer treatment includes an array of ...

Lumpectomies and mastectomies differ in the amount of tissue removed. A lumpectomy removes only the tumor and a small portion of the breast. A mastectomy removes all of the breast tissue, and possibly ...

As National Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes to a close, here are 5 things to note about the prospect of preventive mastectomies for individuals with a high-risk of developing breast cancer. A ...

Robotic mastectomy for invasive breast cancer was performed for the first time in the United States last year, but the move toward this surgical approach ground to a halt soon afterward. The first ...

D. Scott Lind, M.D., F.A.C.S.; Barbara L. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.; Wiley W. Souba, M.D., Sc.D., F.A.C.S. Advances in reconstructive techniques have made breast ...

Just after my 18th birthday, I had a mammogram. What I knew about mammograms was that women my mom’s age had them — not teenage boys. Yet there I was one day after school, shirtless, in a dim room ...