But then I remind myself that those are battle wounds and I can show them what ... happy that I had the option to have a ...

Laura Wharam thought she had appendicitis but her breast cancer had returned and metastasized, spreading to her liver, bones, and lungs Jake Watt / SWNS A woman who had a double mastectomy — and ...

Silicone tissue expanders, inserted at time of mastectomy beneath pectoralis major ... had their adjuvant chemotherapy delayed because of wound problems; all 3 were heavy smokers.

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 ...

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 ...