Despite a significant increase in women with unilateral breast cancer who received a bilateral mastectomy, this study found no survival benefit compared with other treatment options. Although removing ...

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 ...

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 -- Bilateral mastectomy as initial treatment for women with breast cancer and a pathogenic BRCA1 variant was not linked to better survival, according to an international analysis. Compared ...

Mastectomy can have major impacts on the life of a person with breast cancer, from body image issues to sexual and ...

Women who are diagnosed with breast cancer in one breast, even in the early stages, sometimes opt for a double mastectomy, due to the fear that the cancer will migrate to the other breast. But that ...

Breast cancer surgeons have tended not to push patients towards bilateral mastectomy, since data have long shown that the complete removal of both breasts doesn’t improve survival. New data from a ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Dr. Shana Harrington is the interim physical therapy program director at the University of South Carolina. She's been studying breast cancer patients for more than 15 years and her ...

Treating unilateral breast cancer with a bilateral mastectomy substantially reduced the risk of contralateral breast cancer compared with unilateral mastectomy or lumpectomy, yet not breast cancer ...