Medically reviewed by Marla Anderson, MD TNBC is a type of invasive breast cancer that doesn’t have hormone receptors or HER2 ...
PEC I and II nerve blocks enable breast cancer surgeries with deep sedation, avoiding general anesthesia's side effects like nausea and grogginess. Patients recover quickly, often resuming normal ...
Dr Liz O’Riordan brings a rare combination of surgical expertise, lived experience, and a large online presence to the conversation about breast cancer survivorship. A former oncoplastic consultant ...
Autologous flap reconstruction uses the body's own tissue to rebuild a natural breast mound. This procedure adds time to ...
Cure rates are climbing, and so is the complexity of getting there. Dr Yara Abdou takes a closer look at optimizing HER2+ early-stage breast cancer therapy.
After breast cancer surgery, many women are told to limit how much—and how soon—they exercise. "Traditional guidelines question how soon women treated for breast cancer can exercise and how much ...
Lumpectomy followed by radiation is now a more common treatment for early-stage breast cancer than mastectomy. When a mastectomy is necessary, patients can choose between breast reconstruction or an ...
Jennifer Deming, 60, was diagnosed with stage II, hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer in 2020. She opted for a double mastectomy. Still, she worried about the cancer coming back. “I ...
ctDNA can potentially guide surgical decisions in breast cancer patients post-neoadjuvant chemotherapy by predicting lymph node involvement. Machine learning models and the Signatera assay were used ...