When Jesse J, Christina Applegate and Katie Thurston spoke openly about their mastectomies, their candor did more than share private struggles. It highlighted a procedure that, while often life saving ...

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Preventative mastectomy can lower breast cancer risk for people with BRCA mutations or a strong family history of the disease ...

Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer Amy Dowden has revealed she will undergo another mastectomy this week, assuring fans that the procedure is not related to a new cancer diagnosis. The ...

Nearly a decade after getting a preventive double mastectomy after testing showed she had the BRCA gene mutation, a Missouri woman learned that she did not actually have the gene. Maureen Boesen and ...

Women diagnosed with breast cancer are almost immediately confronted with treatment decisions. If a surgical oncologist gives a choice between a lumpectomy and a mastectomy to remove a tumor, that's ...

Meet the young previvors who opted for preventive double mastectomies to reduce their risk of developing breast cancer.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research points to a dramatic increase in the number of women diagnosed with the earliest stage of breast cancer in one breast who choose to have both breasts ...

She plans to undergo chemotherapy and further treatment, with doctors giving her two to five years left A mother has been diagnosed with incurable ovarian cancer despite getting multiple preventive ...

Angelina Jolie has spent decades redefining what it means to be powerful in Hollywood. This week, she added another chapter to that legacy. For the first time, the “Maria” star has chosen to publicly ...

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