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 ...

Different breast cancers start, progress and respond to treatments in different ways. At Fred Hutch Cancer Center, we choose, combine and schedule your treatments based on what works for your ...

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 ...

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 ...