Angelina Jolie has publicly shown her mastectomy scars in a new interview, more than a decade after she underwent the preventive procedure in 2013. The Oscar-winning actress said in an interview that ...

When I explain surgery after a breast cancer diagnosis,I am sometimes asked, “Is it better to conserve it?” “Is it safer to ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For many oncologists, the use of mastectomy to treat breast cancer cases can be a difficult subject to approach ...

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

When I was a child, my grandma was diagnosed with breast cancer. She had a radical mastectomy at 55, which back then meant removing all her muscle, skin, and breast tissue—a disfiguring surgery that ...

MedStar Health breast surgeon Jennifer Son, MD, has performed Maryland's first endoscopic nipple-sparing mastectomy at ...

In a recent study published in JAMA Surgery, a group of researchers evaluated the safety and feasibility of a single-port (SP) robotic-assisted approach for performing nipple-sparing mastectomies (NSM ...

When the American Society of Breast Surgeons issued a consensus statement in 2016 urging surgeons to discourage contralateral ...