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After a Mastectomy. Once the surgery is over: Lymph nodes that were removed will be sent to a lab to see whether the cancer has spread to them. You’ll go to a recovery room where staff can keep ...

Mastectomy is when all breast tissue is removed. In appropriately selected patients, the surgeon may be able to conserve some of the skin and/or nipple normally lost during a mastectomy. The choice of ...

Although prophylactic mastectomy significantly reduces the incidence and recurrence of breast cancer, little is known about women's information needs before the procedure. We surveyed 967 women ...

But a new study published in JAMA Oncology found that undergoing a double mastectomy—a surgery where both breasts are removed—doesn’t increase the chances of survival after a breast cancer ...

As the world’s largest nonprofit cancer center, MSK offers the latest breast cancer treatment options. Our breast surgeons are experts in all types of breast cancer surgery. That includes mastectomy, ...

Over the 20 years of the study, deaths from breast cancer were similar across all groups: 3,077 (8.5%) of women in the lumpectomy group, 3,269 (9%) in the unilateral mastectomy group, and 3,062 (8 ...

The finding that a double mastectomy is not protective against death for many breast cancers seems counterintuitive, Dr. Narod admitted. An accompanying editorial, by Dr. Seema Ahsan Khan, a ...