There is an emerging collective of Aussie women who are proudly embracing their status as “flatties”, opting against ...

More than 100,000 American women undergo mastectomy and breast reconstruction every year. Thousands more are having preventive double mastectomies. But despite widespread awareness of breast ...

This is called a double mastectomy ... it can be done at the time of the preventive mastectomy (immediate reconstruction) or later on (delayed reconstruction). During breast reconstruction ...

There are multiple types of prophylactic mastectomy: 4 A bilateral, or double, mastectomy refers ... Bilateral mastectomy with reconstruction involves removing both breast but also the use of ...

I elected to have a preventative double mastectomy, removing my breasts ... semblance of normalcy and putting in expanders as part of reconstruction. The expanders would stretch my skin and ...

Almost all women who chose not to have a breast reconstruction following a mastectomy say they are happy with their decision, ...

A Michigan woman decided to “take back control” of her body and have a double mastectomy — but opted for tattoos instead of breast reconstruction ... or I could do preventative surgery ...

This includes a mastectomy or a double mastectomy, as well as reconstruction and prosthesis ... who do not have breast cancer choose to have a prophylactic double mastectomy, also known as a ...

Two sisters with the BRCA gene underwent preventative mastectomies together, with one receiving an innovative re-sensation ...

Every single doctor she saw told her she should get a preventative double mastectomy and that she ... Serfaty is now scheduled to undergo breast reconstruction surgery on May 6.

She got a preventative double mastectomy in her 40s, but unlike me, got a breast reconstruction. “I had a little bit of anxiety the week prior to surgery but I think I had a good amount of time ...