Breast Reconstruction Surgery Articles

For women undergoing mastectomy for breast cancer, immediate breast reconstruction has a low risk of complications – including serious complications related to radiation therapy – and does not cause undue delays in cancer treatment, reports a study in the July issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons ...

Finding out your mother or your sister has breast cancer can be devastating. Now imagine that they both receive that diagnosis—on the very same day.“It was surreal,” said Margee Herring of that January day in 2003. “My mother called me with the news of both her cancer, and my sister, Karen’s. It was simply stunning. ...