"For close to six months, I could not walk without a cane, or I had to be pushed in a wheelchair or hold on to a friend, ...

In my medical training in the 1960s and 70s, surgeons, who were almost exclusively males, often did not tell their women ...

Breast cancer surgery, including Modified Radical Mastectomy (MRM) and Breast Conservation Surgery, offers similar survival rates with differing impacts. While MRM is essential for advanced cases ...

Every October 19th is commemorated worldwide as the Day of the Fight against Breast Cancer, and in Venezuela patients ...

Another form of treatment for breast cancer would be radiation treatment. According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, ...

26, 1974. She was 56 years old. The consulting surgeon at Bethesda Naval Hospital, William Fouty, recommended a traditional ...

Mastectomy: With a simple mastectomy, the surgeon removes the entire breast and possibly a few lymph nodes under your arm. If you get a modified radical mastectomy, your entire breast is removed ...

The former MTV host, who has been battling breast cancer for nearly six years, shared in an interview with CNN that her ...

Typically, breast cancer rates in women go up after age 50, with diagnosis in white women spiking between ages 60 to 84.

That includes the breast tissue, nipple, areola, and most of the skin covering the breast. This surgery is also called a simple mastectomy. Modified radical mastectomy This surgery combines a total ...

The former MTV host shared details of her experience navigating treatment for breast cancer in a CNN interview that aired on Tuesday. Ananda Lewis, a former MTV host who has been battling breast ...