Of all women, survivors of this disease and those who undergo a mastectomy deserve to be celebrated ... I haven’t cast off a single article of clothing from my closet. And I’m on the hunt ...

After my breast cancer treatment, I started a clothing bank to give others free access to recovery items like post-surgery ...

And while the visible changes are well-known, there’s a hidden side to mastectomy that often goes unspoken: the lasting numbness that can follow. Even after reconstruction, women can ...

WYNNEWOOD, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- Katelynn Devinney started donating a special kind of clothing to breast cancer patients in 2022 when her mother received a mastectomy. At the time, her mother had ...

Double Mastectomy May Offer No Survival Benefit to Women With Breast Cancer By Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, July 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Women who are diagnosed with breast cancer ...

So Attai did her own survey of close to 1,000 women who’d had a single or double mastectomy without reconstruction. Published last year in Annals of Surgical Oncology, it found that close to ...

We do often see more women choose bilateral mastectomy over unilateral.” The American Society of Plastic Surgeons reported in 2022 that about half of cancer patients who've had a mastectomy ...

“One option would have been implants put in straightaway following mastectomy. I didn’t want to go through that. I chatted with women in Facebook groups and — yes — for some, implants had ...

Like others, we found that women with both contralateral and bilateral prophylactic mastectomy wished to have a realistic expectation of physical results of prophylactic mastectomy and of ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A Vermont designer is launching a new advocacy program for women considering their surgical options after receiving a mastectomy. “STILL” celebrates the beauty ...