When a breast cancer patient requires a mastectomy, cancer surgeons and reconstructive plastic surgeons at the Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and WUSM now perform a technique called ...

Treating breast cancer is an ordeal causing some women to undergo radiation, chemotherapy and a mastectomy. When it is time for breast reconstruction, women want something as close as possible to what ...

D. Scott Lind, M.D., F.A.C.S.; Barbara L. Smith, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S.; Wiley W. Souba, M.D., Sc.D., F.A.C.S. Advances in reconstructive techniques have made breast ...

After abdominal flap breast reconstruction, researchers found the overall hernia repair rate within 3 years was 2.45%, compared with 0.28% among women who had mastectomy only. The study included women ...

(04-09) 15:32 PDT SAN FRANCISCO-- When Lori MacKenzie was diagnosed with breast cancer in the fall of 2010, her immediate impulse was to schedule a double mastectomy with implants because that offered ...

LAWRENCE — Women who are facing the loss of a breast because of cancer often are concerned about what they will look like after the surgery. Some women decide to wear a prosthesis, a breast form that ...

A woman with a breast cancer diagnosis faces many sudden choices, and in the emotional frenzy, reconstruction decisions may get short shrift Lisa Wychgram Kluzik of Lafayette, California, was 38 years ...

It is important that the exercise program be monitored by a physical therapist especially with a Tranverse Rectus Abdominus Myocutaneous (TRAM) flap procedure. With this type of procedure, the plastic ...

2024 APR 12 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- Data detailed on surgery have been presented. According to news originating from Boston, Massachusetts, by NewsRx ...