A breast cancer diagnosis takes both an emotional and physical toll on a patient. And when women undergo a double mastectomy, they may have concerns about their appearance or feelings of inadequacy. A ...

A popular type of breast reconstruction surgery might soon be hard for cancer patients to access. The procedure, called DIEP flap, involves harvesting fat from a patient's abdomen to make a breast.

There are many options open to today's mastectomy patients, and Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern has recently added another: the DIEP flap reconstruction. DIEP — which stands for "deep inferior ...

(04-09) 15:32 PDT SAN FRANCISCO-- When Lori MacKenzie was diagnosed with breast cancer in the fall of 2010, her immediate impulse was to schedule a double mastectomy with implants because that offered ...

An emergency-room nurse at two hospitals in south Georgia, Becky Griffin had one overriding goal as she struggled with bilateral breast cancer in early 2011: "My first concern was getting back to work ...

St. Luke's Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery now employs two fellowship-trained physicians who perform deep inferior epigastric artery perforator breast reconstruction. An advanced microsurgical ...

The increased use of MRI tests for women at high risk of developing breast cancer has resulted in the detection of multiple tumors. While the majority of women with multiple tumors opt for mastectomy, ...

When Lori MacKenzie was diagnosed with breast cancer in the fall of 2010, her immediate impulse was to schedule a double mastectomy with implants because that offered her the quickest resolution. But ...

When Nekesha Moore was diagnosed with breast cancer six months ago, the important things in life were front and center even as she dealt with the shock of her disease. Her two grown children. Her two ...

The struggles faced by breast-cancer survivors often don't end once the disease is in remission. Patients who have had mastectomies are left with a physical – and psychological – reminder of breast ...

Siegel is an internist and an associate professor of medicine at New York University's School of Medicine. Plastic surgeon Dr. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) takes his associate Dr. Liz Cruz (Roma ...