For younger women with early-stage, noninherited breast cancer on one side, a unilateral, or single, mastectomy leads to a slightly higher quality of life and lower costs over the next 20 years ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Bilateral mastectomy reduced risk for contralateral breast cancer vs. other surgical options. Researchers ...

Removing the assumption of a cumulative risk of metastasis for additional nonmetastatic cancer modifies the results, with CPM no longer cost-effective for patients 55 years of age or older. Excluding ...

When Katerine Gagnon was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020 at the age of 42, she was told she would need a mastectomy — the amputation of her breast and removal of all of its tissue — in order to ...

Breast cancer patient reported outcomes, depression, and objective measures of breast cosmesis. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2020 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a ...

The study sample included 661,270 women; after matching, 36,028 women were included in the 3 treatment groups. HealthDay News — For women with unilateral breast cancer, the risk of contralateral ...

Credit: Getty Images. The rate of contralateral breast cancer was higher in patients who underwent unilateral mastectomy and BCT than in patients who underwent bilateral mastectomy. The rate of ...

SAN ANTONIO – Women who opted for mastectomy rather than breast-conserving surgery for early breast cancer had worse quality of life regarding their psychosocial and sexual well-being, according to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The use of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy tripled over 1 decade among women with invasive breast cancer ...

Among women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer in California, the percentage undergoing a double mastectomy increased substantially between 1998 and 2011, although this procedure was not ...