RADICAL mastectomy, long the standard and generally accepted treatment for cancer of the breast, has recently been criticized by McWhirter 1,2 and others 3–6 as being often ineffective and even ...
Ananda Lewis is opening up about her cancer battle. The former MTV VJ and "Teen Summit" host, 51, revealed in an interview with CNN that she has been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer. Lewis said ...
From the warmth of a hug to sexual arousal, modern medicine is just beginning to appreciate the various functions of the breast as well as how lack of sensation post-mastectomy can alter the lives ...
And while the visible changes are well-known, there’s a hidden side to mastectomy that often goes unspoken: the lasting numbness that can follow. Even after reconstruction, women can ...
Years later I spent a week in the hospital as she recovered from a mastectomy; radiation treatment from her prior breast cancer had led to a dangerous breast angiosarcoma, a kind of cancer that ...