Science news articles about 'mastectomy'

... breast removal (41 percent). “Our study is the largest to examine the association between MRI and mastectomy rates at a single institution and may reflect national trends,” says Dr. Goetz. Dr. ...

... scale (4 being an "excellent" result). The study found that women who had a bilateral prophylactic mastectomy were 100 percent satisfied with their breast reconstruction and 100 percent of them would ...

... not require post-surgery radiation therapy (RT) when they receive neoadjuvant chemotherapy before a mastectomy, according to researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The ...

... not require post-surgery radiation therapy (RT) when they receive neoadjuvant chemotherapy before a mastectomy, according to researchers from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Centre...

One-fifth of women who should receive radiation after a mastectomy are not getting this potentially lifesaving treatment, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan ...

One-fifth of women who should receive radiation after a mastectomy are not getting this potentially lifesaving treatment, according to a new study from researchers at the University of Michigan ...

... reduce cancer risk decided to undergo the procedure. A similar number of those who felt that preventive mastectomy was the only way to reduce worry underwent the procedure (84.2 percent). The survey ...

... of breast cancer choosing to have both breasts surgically removed. The rate of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) surgery among U.S. women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) increased by ...

NYACK, N.Y., May 14 (UPI) -- A 28-year-old man alleges in a lawsuit against a hospital in Nyack, N.Y., he underwent a mastectomy as a result of a misdiagnosis of cancer.

Rates of double mastectomies in New York held steady for healthy women but increased in those with cancer.

... increase in BCS, concerns persist that women with breast cancer are being overtreated with mastectomy," according to background information in the article. Dr. Morrow and colleagues conducted a ...

... involved 1,334 women newly-diagnosed with stage 1 or 2 breast cancer who had undergone a mastectomy, or surgery to remove a breast. Patients had either cancer that had spread to the axillary lymph ...

... . "The DIEP flap procedure can offer women seeking breast reconstruction after a mastectomy some of the advantages of a more natural breast with the effects of a tummy tuck. Although it is more ...

... surgical treatment that could allow women with cancer to regrow their breasts after a mastectomy.Human trials for the procedure, which scientists hope could replace breast reconstructions and ...

... we look at Britain's renewable energy targets, a new technique to regrow breasts following mastectomy, a recent spate of cancer deaths among rescuers after 9/11, and the controversy over whether ...