HER2 tumor marker tests are used to determine whether breast cancer is HER2 positive or negative. A person is a candidate for ...

Diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer can differ for patients in rural communities compared with those in urban ...

Breast cancer patients who opt for partial breast removal may need 2nd surgery. By ABC News. July 12, 2012, 3:48 PM. July 12, 2012— -- Partial breast removal surgery to treat cancer is not ...

Why many breast cancer patients get surgery they don't really need 02:03. Most breast cancer patients who opt for prophylactic mastectomy -- surgery to remove their healthy breast as a precaution ...

Patients who end up becoming eligible for direct-to-implant surgery are usually younger, have small breasts and have no health problems. They also do not need to have chemotherapy or radiation ...

More Breast Cancer Patients Choosing Preventive Mastectomy, Despite Low Rates of Cancer Recurrence. Published Mar 11, 2016 at 6:29 PM EST Updated May 28, 2016 at 12:15 PM EDT.

When breast cancer patients are done with treatment, they may wonder about the disease coming back. In many cases, doctors don't know if it will happen — until it does.

Rural breast cancer patients are more likely than urban women to choose a mastectomy, which removes the entire breast but typically doesn't require follow-up radiation. Too Many Tests.

Roughly 25 percent of double-mastectomy patients and 50 percent of single-mastectomy patients opt out of reconstruction, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology ...

Claim: A bill known as the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act seeks to require insurance companies to cover a minimum 48-hour hospital stay for patients undergoing mastectomies. There's a bill ...

A University of Chicago-led research team is building a “bionic breast” designed to revive feeling for post-mastectomy cancer patients.