ALLMedicine™ Mastectomy Center

Feb 23rd, 2021 - Subcutaneous nipple sparing mastectomies (NSM) are an important tool in modern oncoplastic surgery. Especially when an immediate implant-based reconstruction (IBR) is desired, clean margins are of the utmost importance. Central nipple biopsies dur...

Feb 22nd, 2021 - The objective of this study is to examine racial differences in receipt of low-value surgical care and time to surgery (TTS) among women receiving treatment at high-volume hospitals. Stage I-III non-Hispanic Black (NHB) and Non-Hispanic White (NHW...

Feb 20th, 2021 - Routine anesthesia modality for modified radical mastectomy (MRM) includes general anesthesia (GA), epidural blockade-combined GA and nerve blockade-combined GA. However, GA has been associated with postoperative adverse effects such as vertigo, p...

Feb 20th, 2021 - The impact of MRI on improving surgical outcomes in DCIS is debated. Here, we explore the utility of MRI in the investigation and management of DCIS in three key areas. Firstly, we highlight that MRI is likely to be a more accurate predictor of ac...

Feb 18th, 2021 - Breast cancer survivors represent a unique group of patients who need complex and continuous care after their cancer treatment. These patients often see several providers in various specialties. This study aimed to analyze how traditional Chinese ...

Nov 6th, 2020 - Mastectomy may be performed to treat breast cancer or as a prophylactic approach in women with a high risk of developing breast cancer. In addition, mastectomies may be performed with or without reconstruction. Reconstruction approaches differ and...

Jan 8th, 2020 - In this cohort study of 316 women with breast cancer who were participants in the Southwest Oncology Group S8814 randomized clinical trial, an intermediate or high recurrence score was associated with a significantly increased risk of locoregional...

May 20th, 2019 - Immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) rates after mastectomy are increasing. Postmastectomy radiation therapy (PMRT) contouring guidelines for target volumes in the setting of IBR are lacking. Therefore, many patients who have had IBR receive PMRT...

Mar 28th, 2019 - More than 300,000 women and teenagers underwent breast implant augmentation surgeries in 2017. In addition, approximately 106,000 women underwent breast implant surgery for reconstruction after mastectomy. The popularity of breast implants has ris...

Mar 12th, 2019 - For many years after the commercialization of multigene panel testing for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome, BRCA1 and BRCA2 remained the most commonly identified pathologic variants. Recent studies have found that variants in genes ot...

Feb 23rd, 2021 - Subcutaneous nipple sparing mastectomies (NSM) are an important tool in modern oncoplastic surgery. Especially when an immediate implant-based reconstruction (IBR) is desired, clean margins are of the utmost importance. Central nipple biopsies dur...

Feb 22nd, 2021 - The objective of this study is to examine racial differences in receipt of low-value surgical care and time to surgery (TTS) among women receiving treatment at high-volume hospitals. Stage I-III non-Hispanic Black (NHB) and Non-Hispanic White (NHW...

Feb 20th, 2021 - Routine anesthesia modality for modified radical mastectomy (MRM) includes general anesthesia (GA), epidural blockade-combined GA and nerve blockade-combined GA. However, GA has been associated with postoperative adverse effects such as vertigo, p...

Feb 20th, 2021 - The impact of MRI on improving surgical outcomes in DCIS is debated. Here, we explore the utility of MRI in the investigation and management of DCIS in three key areas. Firstly, we highlight that MRI is likely to be a more accurate predictor of ac...

Feb 18th, 2021 - Breast cancer survivors represent a unique group of patients who need complex and continuous care after their cancer treatment. These patients often see several providers in various specialties. This study aimed to analyze how traditional Chinese ...

Feb 16th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many women undergo medically unnecessary contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, and reducing the rate of these procedures requires a "social change" involving patients and physicians, as well as cultural and systems-lev...

Feb 4th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Most women who received a mastectomy and decided to "go flat" rather than undergo breast reconstruction reported that they were happy with their surgeries, according to a team of surgeons and oncologists. As part of a g...

Dec 21st, 2020 - Numerous studies have demonstrated that textured breast implants predispose women who undergo breast reconstruction to breast implant-associated anaplastic large-cell lymphoma. Now, an analysis of new data from a cohort study of 650 women who unde...

Dec 9th, 2020 - More than one in eight women who undergo mastectomy with reconstruction for breast cancer treatment or prophylaxis become persistent users of controlled substances thereafter, according to a retrospective cohort study reported at the 2020 San Anto...

Nov 26th, 2020 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Long-term oncologic outcomes following neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer are similar with immediate breast reconstruction and conventional mastectomy alone, regardless of response to chemo, according to a retro...