Deciding how to treat your breast cancer can be a very difficult and personal decision. Dr. Cindy Matsen, breast surgeon at Huntsman Cancer Institute, says it’s easy for women who begin initial ...

Many women who are diagnosed with breast cancer face the difficult decision of whether to have a lumpectomy with radiation or a mastectomy with reconstruction. With the availability of study results ...

"Because I was only 20, I discovered this on my own," Katie Thurston wrote on her Instagram Story on Wednesday Digital News Writer, PEOPLE Katie Thurston is encouraging her followers to always ...

Breast cancer death rates have been declining since 1989, but the disease remains the second leading cause of cancer death in women. And incidence rates have increased slightly in recent years. For ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: 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 ...

It is well established that breast conservation, which involves the removal of a breast cancer along with a small rim of normal breast tissue around it and is followed by radiation therapy, is at ...

Margaret “Peggy” Reichard’s mother was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 70. She had a single mastectomy and, 25 years later at age 95, she is doing fine. Reichard’s maternal grandmother died in her ...

Kim Kaufman is competing at the Final Stage of LPGA Q-School one year after a breast cancer diagnosis. Kaufman underwent a ...