Oncoplastic surgery in the setting of oncologic breast surgery is where breast surgical oncologists and plastic surgeons interface. Indeed, the potential role of oncoplastic techniques is now ...
Dr. Anne Peled never imaged she would be on the other side of the scalpel. The 37-year-old breast cancer surgeon and plastic surgeon has performed lumpectomies and breast reconstruction procedures on ...
Lumpectomy is the gold standard for breast cancer surgery, says Kirstyn E. Brownson, MD, a surgical breast oncologist at Huntsman Cancer Institute. We asked Dr. Brownson to explain what a lumpectomy ...
"I treat women for breast cancer, but I never imagined I would be one of them." Dr. Anne Peled is a 37-year-old mother of three and a board-certified plastic and breast surgeon at Sutter Health ...
According to The American Cancer Society, the average risk of a woman developing invasive breast cancer is 13 percent and as a woman ages, the change of having breast cancer increases. Treatment ...
If you or someone you love is facing a breast cancer diagnosis, MSK experts can help. If you want to learn about surgeries to treat breast cancer, this is a place to start. We’ll explain surgeries ...
As you get older, your risk of breast cancer increases. In fact, approximately 60 percent of people who have cancer are 65 or older and most breast cancers are found in women age 55 and older. But ...
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 ...