I understand surgery is often included as part of the treatment plan for breast cancer. If I'm a candidate for lumpectomy but ...

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 ...

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For women facing a breast cancer diagnosis, one of the biggest decisions is often ...

Which is the best choice--a lumpectomy or mastectomy? It's a decision more than 232,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer will have to make in this country this year: whether to have a lumpectomy or ...

Mohamed A Alm El-Din, Mohamed A Alm El-Din gained his medical degree in 1996 from Tanta University, Egypt. He has been a faculty member and received his MSc in radiation oncology from the same ...

Partial Breast Irradiation (PBI) is not only a less taxing and more convenient alternative to traditional radiation therapy for breast cancer patients, but research suggests it is just as effective.

Breast cancer is hard enough. Treatment should be quick and easy. That's the thinking of many physicians who have opted to offer MammoSite, a type of radiation that cuts treatment time from several ...