Mastectomy is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts, partially or completely. A mastectomy is usually carried out to treat...

Radical mastectomy is a surgical procedure that treats breast cancer by removing the breast and its underlying chest muscle (including pectoralis major...

A preventive mastectomy or prophylactic mastectomy or risk-reducing mastectomy (RRM) is an elective operation to remove the breasts so that the risk of...

breasts. They are often used temporarily or permanently by women after mastectomy or lumpectomy procedures, but may also be used by for aesthetic purposes...

Nipple delay, also known as nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM), is one of the surgical approaches for treating or preventing breast cancer. This surgery involves...

refers to an operation that aims to remove breast cancer while avoiding a mastectomy. Different forms of this operation include: lumpectomy (tylectomy), wide...

long-standing lymphedema. The incidence of angiosarcoma five years after radical mastectomy is estimated to be 0.45% in surviving patients. Lymphedema is also associated...

for women undergoing mastectomy. There is no evidence that mastectomy decreases the risk of death over a lumpectomy. Mastectomy, however, may decrease...

targeted therapy. Types of surgery vary from breast-conserving surgery to mastectomy. Breast reconstruction may take place at the time of surgery or at a later...

Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy (known as Lipstick in some countries) is a 2006 television film that aired on Lifetime Television and starred Sarah...

Lumpectomy (sometimes known as a tylectomy, partial mastectomy, breast segmental resection or breast wide local excision) is a surgical removal of a discrete...

anesthetics, and introduced several new operations, including the radical mastectomy for breast cancer. Along with William Osler (Professor of Medicine), Howard...

flat closure", "nonreconstructive mastectomy", "oncoplastic mastectomy", "non-skin sparing mastectomy", "mastectomy without reconstruction", and "aesthetic...

Riperton was diagnosed with breast cancer; in April, she underwent a radical mastectomy. By the time of diagnosis, the cancer had metastasized and she was given...

Breast reconstruction can be performed either immediately following the mastectomy or as a separate procedure at a later date, known as immediate reconstruction...

survivors who were treated for breast cancer with a mastectomy. Prostheses can be worn weeks after a mastectomy, breast reconstruction, or even nipple reconstruction...

Post-mastectomy pain syndrome (PMPS) is used to describe persistent neuropathic pain that follows breast surgery, such as mastectomy and lumpectomy. PMPS...

Reynaud phenomenon of the nipple Flat nipple A nipple-sparing/subcutaneous mastectomy is a surgical procedure where breast tissue is removed, but the nipple...

reduction surgery Mastectomy Gender-affirming surgery Gender-affirming surgery (female-to-male), may include bilateral mastectomy and male chest reconstruction...

Eastwood. Harden played a woman who has a mastectomy in Home (2008). (Her character in Rails & Ties also had a mastectomy.) Scenes in both films required her...

or making it harder to check this through a mammography. As opposed to mastectomy, therapeutic mammoplasty has emerged as a way to address breast cancer...

chest reconstruction is a type of mastectomy called a subcutaneous (under the skin) mastectomy. This type of mastectomy removes tissue from inside the breast...

Conventional mastectomy (top); skin sparing mastectomy and latissimus dorsi myocutaneous flap reconstruction, prior to nipple reconstruction and tattooing...

then she had undergone a lumpectomy, and was scheduled to have a double mastectomy later in the week. Governor Cuomo was to take some personal time to be...

simple (total) mastectomy, radical mastectomy, modified radical mastectomy, skin-sparing mastectomy, and subcutaneous (nipple sparing) mastectomy. The breast...

prevention, and starred in the Lifetime movie Why I Wore Lipstick to My Mastectomy. She is an ambassador for the Audrey Hepburn Children's Foundation. Chalke...

small chance of surviving and recommended that she undergo a radical mastectomy. The Hitlers were devastated by the news. According to Bloch, Klara Hitler...

December 5, 2011, Rancic disclosed she had decided to undergo a bilateral mastectomy. On April 23, 2012, Giuliana and Bill announced on The Today Show that...

risk.: 209–244  Bilateral mastectomy is the removal of both breasts by a breast surgeon.: 209–244  The modified radical mastectomy is only used in women diagnosed...

surgical drain is removed. Abdominal surgery Breast surgery Craniotomy Mastectomy Thoracic surgery Joint replacement (arthroplasty) The Jackson-Pratt Drain...