Lumpectomy

Researchers at Keck Medicine of USC are part of a national, multisite clinical trial to evaluate a minimally invasive water vapor system that uses steam to treat prostate cancer.

Dana Ataya, MD, has written more than a hundred songs.

For many oncologists, the use of mastectomy to treat breast cancer cases can be a difficult subject to approach with patients.

Women with unilateral breast cancer who underwent bilateral mastectomy had a significantly lower risk for contralateral breast cancer than those who underwent other surgical procedures, results of a cohort study showed.

The Medicare reimbursement rate for 10 common breast cancer-related surgical operations failed to outpace inflation over the last 20 years, according to a presentation at American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting.

Yolanda Bryce, MD, still remembers her patient’s shock.

Younger women with nonmetastatic breast cancer who underwent breast-conserving surgery experienced similar OS as those who underwent mastectomy, according to study results.

Partial breast reirradiation without mastectomy appeared as effective as mastectomy for treatment of breast cancer recurrence in the ipsilateral breast after lumpectomy and whole breast irradiation, according to results of the phase 2 NRG Oncology/RTOG1014 trial published in JAMA Oncology.

In this video, E. McAuley Fish, DO, breast surgery fellow with Fox Chase Cancer Center, highlights the role of surgery in early breast cancer.