Letrozole, a new oral aromatase inhibitor for advanced breast cancer: double-blind randomized trial showing a dose effect and improved efficacy and tolerability compared with megestrol acetate. In ...

For those with localized breast cancer, surgical options may include either lumpectomy or mastectomy, and patients have free rein about which to choose. Star Mackenzie Burruto had just gotten off the ...

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 ...

There are more than 23,000 breast cancer operations every year in Britain. Here, Michelle Hill, 31, who lives with her partner, Cliff, and son Caleb in Swanley, Kent, and works for a London investment ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For many breast cancer patients who undergo mastectomy or lumpectomy, pain persists for weeks after the surgery. But for between 20 and 30 percent of those patients, the pain never goes away. In ...

A new U.S. study examining survival rates for women with early stage breast cancer found that surgery such as lumpectomy that preserves the rest of the breast may offer survival odds as good as, or ...

In 1976, we initiated a randomized trial to determine whether lumpectomy with or without radiation therapy was as effective as total mastectomy for the treatment of invasive breast cancer. The ...