Intraoperative ultrasound guided wire (IOUS-wire) localization biopsy with frozen section versus preoperative fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) for the evaluation of clinically positive nodes in ...

Do Gels Really "Move and Feel" Like Breast Tissue? Are There Better Materials? Are there other reasons to wear a "weighted" external breast prosthesis? The most common filler material used today in ...

Who knew it would be so hard to find a replacement boob? I wasn’t eager to have this information, but when a stubborn sarcoma invaded my left upper chest and required a modified radical mastectomy, I ...

Nancy Waithera, right, tries on a knitted breast prosthesis as Mary Mwangi, 52, looks on Jan. 30 at her shop in Thika, Kiambu County, Kenya. (Samson Otieno/Associated Press) THIKA, Kenya — When Mary ...

Oct 9 (Reuters) - (This is an excerpt of the Health Rounds newsletter, where we present latest medical studies on Tuesdays and Thursdays. To receive it in your inbox for free sign up here, opens new ...

Following a mastectomy, Medicare Part B may cover external breast prostheses and mastectomy bras that hold them in place, provided the prostheses do not have integral adhesive. Medicare may replace ...

THIKA, Kenya — When Mary Mwangi got her cancer diagnosis, she imagined death would follow shortly. She did not expect that her hobby of knitting, which she took up while recovering, would affect the ...