There are a number of options for women when they learn they have breast cancer in its earliest stages, when the tumor is relatively small and has not yet spread. Each option is similarly effective ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If youve been recently diagnosed with breast cancer, one of the first decisions you may face is which type of surgery to have. The ...

A new analysis has found that lumpectomy plus radiation for early breast cancer may provide patients with a better chance of survival than mastectomy. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Each year more than 200,000 women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, the most common kind, must make myriad treatment ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover cancer science, treatments and attitudes. This is a common and costly problem: This year, most of 290,000 U.S. people, ...

Molecular and genomic predictors of response to single-agent doxorubicin (ADR) versus single-agent docetaxel (DOC) in primary breast cancer (PBC). Background: In women 70 years of age or older with ...

Thanks to modern, multimodal breast cancer therapies, 5-year local recurrence rates following lumpectomy have dropped significantly, making breast-conserving surgery (BCS) an option for more patients ...

A lumpectomy is a surgical procedure that removes cancer from the breast. Unlike a mastectomy — which removes the entire breast — a lumpectomy removes just the area of the breast where there is cancer ...

A new guideline on margins in breast cancer surgery is likely to reduce the re-excision rate for women with early-stage breast cancer who undergo lumpectomy. At present, this re-excision rate is ...

Approximately 10% of breast cancer patients treated with lumpectomy (breast-conserving surgery [BCS]) and whole-breast radiation (WBI) will have a subsequent in-breast local recurrence of cancer (IBTR ...

For those with localized breast cancer, surgical options may include either lumpectomy or mastectomy, and patients have free rein about which to choose. Star Mackenzie Burruto had just gotten off the ...

If youve been recently diagnosed with breast cancer, one of the first decisions you may face is which type of surgery to have. The decision can feel overwhelming, but if your surgeon is offering you a ...