Northwestern Medicine physicians are now utilizing a new treatment option for breast cancer that allows women to receive a full dose of radiation therapy during breast conserving surgery, according to ...

PURPOSE: To determine the risk of second malignancies after lumpectomy and radiation therapy (LRT), and to compare it with that in a similar cohort of early-stage breast cancer patients undergoing ...

Question: I understand surgery is often included as part of the treatment plan for breast cancer. If I’m a candidate for lumpectomy but am also considering a mastectomy, what are some things I should ...

Accelerated partial breast irradiation was designed to be a faster, more convenient, and potentially safer way for many women with breast cancer to reduce their mortality risk and help keep their ...

Larger breast size, diabetes, and smoking history may be factors of increased volume loss whether whole- or partial-breast radiation was administered. HealthDay News — Patients with T1 tumors ...

—For certain older patients with low-genomic-risk, early-stage breast cancer, the findings from a new study suggest that some of them may be able to forgo either radiotherapy or endocrine therapy ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Doctors are less likely to give black women radiation therapy after surgery to remove early-stage breast cancer than white women, researchers said on Wednesday, adding to ...

Women diagnosed with breast cancer are almost immediately confronted with treatment decisions. If a surgical oncologist gave a choice between a lumpectomy and a mastectomy to remove a tumor, that's ...

Jennifer Deming, 60, was diagnosed with stage II, hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer in 2020. She opted for a double mastectomy. Still, she worried about the cancer coming back. “I ...