Skin-sparing mastectomy leaves skin for potential reconstruction, but the author chose not to pursue it, embracing natural asymmetry instead. Clear communication with surgeons and thorough pre-surgery ...

When locoregional recurrence does occur, radiation treatment is feasible, particularly with reconstructions using autogenous tissue from the patient. In the MD Anderson Cancer Center series, [16] 19 ...

Following decades that saw its popularity dwindle in favor of subpectoral breast reconstruction, prepectoral breast reconstruction is once again on the rise. Popular as a method of breast ...

A review of 1026 consecutive nipple-sparing mastectomies with separately submitted subareolar tissue biopsy specimens confirmed the value of subareolar intraoperative frozen section evaluations for ...

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 ...

Predictive biomarkers of invasive carcinoma on excision in patients with a diagnosis of ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast by needle biopsy. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ASCO ...

The surgeries that we do for breast cancer are mastectomy versus lumpectomy. Mastectomy obviously is removing the whole breast. There's several different types of mastectomy. And we used to talk about ...

There are women all over the world advocating for flat closure and starting nonprofits to put flat on the menu and make it a viable choice when it comes to mastectomy. It was the summer of 2015. I ...