Mastectomy recovery includes loving yourself again
Breast cancer takes a toll that goes beyond treatment itself. For many women, some of the hardest parts to process are the physical changes it leaves behind, particularly hair loss and the alteration or loss of their breasts. What a mastectomy takes and what it doesn’t Breasts carry a strange weight in American culture, often […]
Breast cancer study reveals a timing factor worth paying attention to
Breast cancer treatment has long followed a familiar sequence. Surgery comes first, usually a lumpectomy or mastectomy, and radiation follows. For decades that order has been treated as standard. A study out of the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, published in 2017, raised a question that the oncology field hadn’t fully confronted: what if […]