Women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer often can choose to have a lumpectomy, which removes only cancerous tissue and a thin margin of surrounding healthy cells instead of the entire breast.

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 ...

After Katie Couric was diagnosed with breast cancer this summer, one of the first questions swirling in her head was whether she would need a mastectomy — or surgery to remove the entire breast. But ...

Based on biomarker findings, some patients may be able to avoid radiation therapy following breast-conserving surgery, suggest results from the LUMINA trial. The women in this trial who skipped ...

Each year more than 200,000 women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, the most common kind, must make myriad treatment decisions. Among them: whether to have a mastectomy or breast-conserving ...

Impact of surgery and radiation of the primary among women with de novo stage IV breast cancer. Impact of adjuvant chemotherapy on recurrence-free survival in patients with pT1a/b hormone-negative and ...

FILE - A technician displays images of a mammogram scan on a computer screen at a hospital in Odessa, Texas, on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021. A study discussed Friday, Dec. 9, 2022, at the San Antonio ...

NEW YORK - As an addition to breast-conserving surgery, radiation treatment decreases the risk that breast cancer will recur and may improve survival, new research indicates. "Although radiotherapy is ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Lidia Schapira, MD: Hello. I'm Lidia Schapira, your host for this program, Medscape InDiscussion: Breast Cancer. Our topic for today is clinical ...

Many women with two or three breast tumors can get by with lumpectomy surgery instead of having their whole breast removed, a new study suggests. In recent years, more patients with multiple tumors ...