Women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer often can choose to have a lumpectomy, which removes only cancerous tissue and a thin margin of surrounding healthy cells instead of the entire breast.

Northwestern Medicine physicians are now utilizing a new treatment option for breast cancer that allows women to receive a full dose of radiation therapy during breast conserving surgery, according to ...

As Breast Cancer Awareness month winds down, two local women told their stories of Breast Cancer and discussed their mission ...

Early detection, advanced drug therapies, and less invasive surgeries are transforming breast cancer care, offering better ...

Breast cancer is hard enough. Treatment should be quick and easy. That's the thinking of many physicians who have opted to offer MammoSite, a type of radiation that cuts treatment time from several ...

Many women who are diagnosed with breast cancer face the difficult decision of whether to have a lumpectomy with radiation or a mastectomy with reconstruction. With the availability of study results ...

Each year more than 200,000 women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, the most common kind, must make myriad treatment decisions. Among them: whether to have a mastectomy or breast-conserving ...

Women with multiple ipsilateral breast cancer may have similar recurrence-free outcomes with a lumpectomy as one might encounter with a mastectomy, opening the door for more surgical treatment options ...

Discover the latest advancements in breast cancer treatment from leading experts in surgery, radiation and reconstruction. Your world shatters when you hear the words, “You have breast cancer.” You ...

Over two years ago, my wife Lynnda got the news, “You have breast cancer.” Not the news we wanted to hear. It was factual.

(WJAR) — A decade after beating breast cancer through a lumpectomy and radiation, Linda Regen of Rehoboth is now facing a new fight-- a battle to get her breasts back through reconstructive surgery.