Timely receipt of guideline-concordant care can improve survival and may help mitigate racial and ethnic disparities in survival among patients with inflammatory breast cancer, researchers wrote.

Surgery for breast cancer is known as MRM (Modified Radical Mastectomy). The term originates from the Greek word mastos, ...

Researchers at Keck Medicine of USC are part of a national, multisite clinical trial to evaluate a minimally invasive water ...

There's several different types of mastectomy. And we used to talk about doing a radical mastectomy, where we removed the whole breast-- all the skin, the muscle, all the lymph nodes ...

Then, he grafted skin—likely from her thigh—to patch up the gaping wound. The procedure was unprecedented in the U.S. Although records of mastectomy-like procedures stretch back to at least the second ...

Dr Mishra of SGPGIMS, who spoke specifically on the symptoms of Stage-IV or metastatic breast cancer, which often goes undetected, advocated for the same rather than a modified radical mastectomy ...

Figure 2a. Design of skin incisions for 48-year -old female before planned skin-sparing left modified radical mastectomy and right prophylactic mastectomy. Figure 2b. Silicone tissue expanders ...

1970s -- A handful of forward-thinking surgeons began believing that simple mastectomy-- removal of only the breast itself -- was just as effective as a radical mastectomy. Surgeons also began ...