Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Since 2008, the rate of bilateral mastectomy among patients with early-stage breast cancer increased, decreased ...

Arame Ford considers herself an empathetic person — one who understands illness. The president of the Bahamas AIDS Foundation ...

Among young women carrying germline BRCA1/2 pathogenic or likely pathogenic variants diagnosed with early-onset breast cancer, bilateral mastectomy rates increased substantially over two decades, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bilateral mastectomy reduced risk for contralateral breast cancer vs. other surgical options. Researchers ...

In the face of a breast cancer diagnosis, women grapple with life-altering decisions. Among these, the choice to undergo a bilateral breast mastectomy – the surgical removal of both breasts – stands ...

The study sample included 661,270 women; after matching, 36,028 women were included in the 3 treatment groups. HealthDay News — For women with unilateral breast cancer, the risk of contralateral ...

SAN ANTONIO -- Bilateral mastectomy as initial treatment for women with breast cancer and a pathogenic BRCA1 variant was not linked to better survival, according to an international analysis. Compared ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

A recent study of female breast cancer survivors shows that feelings toward body image were consistently worse among those who had a bilateral mastectomy vs breast-conserving surgery. “Among younger ...

The first-ever direct comparison of breast cancer surgeries shows no survival benefit for women who had both breasts removed compared with women who underwent lumpectomy followed by radiation therapy.

Treating unilateral breast cancer with a bilateral mastectomy substantially reduced the risk of contralateral breast cancer compared with unilateral mastectomy or lumpectomy, yet not breast cancer ...