I got the call two days before Christmas 2020, and a couple of weeks before my 37th birthday. “Ms. Hughes, your biopsy came back positive and your diagnosis is invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC).” The ...

It is well established that breast conservation, which involves the removal of a breast cancer along with a small rim of normal breast tissue around it and is followed by radiation therapy, is at ...

Breast MRI detected a total of 124 additional suspicious areas in 73 patients. "Breast MRI altered the surgical management of patients with newly diagnosed breast cancer in 36 (23.2 percent) of 155 ...

A double mastectomy is a surgical procedure involving the removal of both breasts, often employed to treat or prevent breast cancer in individuals at high risk of the disease. However, recent research ...

A new U.S. study examining survival rates for women with early stage breast cancer found that surgery such as lumpectomy that preserves the rest of the breast may offer survival odds as good as, or ...

Receiving a breast cancer diagnosis can be a shock, and navigating the medical process can be confusing. Your primary care physician can help you start this process as they are usually the ones who ...

Breast cancer is hard enough. Treatment should be quick and easy. That's the thinking of many physicians who have opted to offer MammoSite, a type of radiation that cuts treatment time from several ...

When Arlene Horwitz, 63, was diagnosed with breast cancer, she was determined to do whatever it took to defeat the disease. She endured a mastectomy, eight hours of surgery for breast reconstruction ...

As many as 40% of lumpectomies leave positive margins that necessitate a second surgery, but a novel fluorescent imaging agent used along with a direct visualization system may improve complete ...