Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, an OB-GYN, wanted a preventive double-mastectomy. She fought to get it, then learned she already had ...

Investigators evaluated the association between risk-reducing bilateral mastectomy and overall and breast cancer–specific mortality in female carriers of BRCA pathogenic variants.

In the U.S., one in eight women will get breast cancer in their lifetime, and about half of them will have mastectomies. Many ...

When Elizabeth Peppas was diagnosed with extensive, noninvasive breast cancer in 2007, she found herself heading into a devastating surgery: double mastectomy. But she, like so many other women, hoped ...

"GMA" booker Paige More shares her experience of getting a double mastectomy. — -- "Good Morning America" booker and segment producer Paige More shares her personal experience of under going a ...

For women who have gone through treatment for breast cancer, the day they are told they’re in remission is a pretty fantastic one. But to really celebrate and exhale, many will wait a standard five ...

In this op-ed, Dr. Anne Peled, MD, a board-certified plastic surgeon practicing aesthetic, reconstructive, and breast cancer surgery in San Francisco, discusses how the prospect of breast numbness ...