In the U.S., one in eight women will get breast cancer in their lifetime, and about half of them will have mastectomies. Many of those women opt to have their breasts surgically reconstructed, most commonly with implants, but a relatively high percentage develop infections after implant surgery, requiring intravenous antibiotics and often removal of the … Read more
A mum who felt a sharp pain in her breast during a yoga session was later diagnosed with lobular breast cancer and now faces another mastectomy. Vicki Poole, a 45-year-old marketing agency director, who lives in Ruislip, west London, attended her usual yoga class in December 2021 and, after visiting her GP and having tests, … Read more
TOPLINE: In a multicenter cohort study of 575 South Korean patients with BRCA1 or BRCA2 pathogenic variants, breast-conserving treatment demonstrated comparable oncologic outcomes to mastectomy over a median follow-up of 8.3 years. After propensity score matching, no significant differences between the two surgical approaches were found in terms of locoregional recurrence, distant recurrence, and overall … Read more