The Breast Cancer Reconstruction Blog

Here's a great infographic summarizing the breast reconstruction options available these days: Some additional important points: ...

Many patients think or are told they cannot have immediate breast reconstruction (reconstruction at the same time as mastectomy) because it...

In the vast majority of cases, a breast cancer diagnosis affects more than one person. All the focus understandably centers around the patie...

Nipple-sparing mastectomy in conjunction with immediate breast reconstruction is becoming more and more popular so I thought a blog post abo...

Most women facing mastectomy and breast reconstruction want to know what kind of feeling their new breast(s) will have. Unfortunately mast...

Alarmingly, 70% of American women facing surgery for breast cancer are not told about the option of breast reconstruction. Perhaps one of ...

Currently only 30% of breast cancer patients are informed of their breast reconstruction options before mastectomy or lumpectomy. New legi...

Breast reconstruction surgery restores something that nature has provided but cancer has taken away. Unfortunately, most American women w...

A new form of breast reconstruction that allows women to re-grow breasts from their own fat stem cells after a mastectomy could be offered t...

By Lisa Bernhard I was 29 years old when my gray-haired surgeon looked at me from across his desk and said, "I'd recommend a mastec...

By Sharon Lacey What does health care reform mean for patients with breast cancer and how will it affect you? Well, it could mean... Even th...

Radiation therapy is often recommended as part of breast cancer treatment. Patients undergoing lumpectomy receive radiation routinely once t...

San Antonio, TX (PRWEB) February 23, 2009 -- Plastic, Reconstructive & Microsurgical Associates (PRMA) of South Texas, a leading breast ...

Women interested in breast reconstruction after mastectomy have several reconstruction options to choose from. In Part I of this series we d...

A study published in the November issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics examined the effect of radiation ...

One of my breast cancer patients called me today. She recently underwent bilateral mastectomies and immediate breast reconstruction with DIE...

Actress Christina Applegate’s public disclosure of her breast cancer, her decision to have a double mastectomy, and plans to go forth with b...

By Kim Dixon WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A congressional panel on Wednesday said it has bipartisan support for a bill requiring health insurers t...

From 1998 through 2003, the rate of double mastectomies among women in the United States who had cancer diagnosed in only one breast more th...

If you are a woman facing mastectomy you have a decision to make: do I want breast reconstruction? If the answer is “yes”, plastic surgery h...