Elisabeth Potter, a doctor based in Austin, Texas, created a video on Instagram detailing her experience treating a cancer ...

Medically, a “double” or “bilateral” mastectomy refers to the combination ... According to a 2017 study published in the ...

After starting our family, I was added onto the waiting list for surgery. Months went ... breast cancer during her long wait for bilateral risk reducing mastectomy.' It added that 'it was probable ...

Your personal preferences. A mastectomy is surgery to remove all your breast tissue to treat cancer. When your surgeons remove 1 breast, it’s called a unilateral mastectomy. If they remove both ...

A MUM-of-two who waited 18 monthsfor surgery to reduce her risk of developing breast cancer was then diagnosed with the disease. The NHS trust has apologised to Sharni Marks, 31, who is still in ...

We surveyed 967 women, from 6 healthcare systems, with bilateral or contralateral prophylactic mastectomy performed between 1979 and 1999. There were 2 open-ended questions: "What one thing do you ...

Until recently, the surgical management of breast cancer has centered around two main options—either tumor resection by carrying out breast-conserving surgery or mastectomy with or without ...

Like others, we found that women with both contralateral and bilateral prophylactic ... face following the surgery. In addition to photographs of women after prophylactic mastectomy and ...