If you’ve opted to get a breast form after your mastectomy, here’s how to prepare for your fitting. A mastectomy is a procedure that removes breast tissue, and is performed to either treat or prevent ...

Bringing 12 years of experiece with her, Ulferts will be offering pre- and post-mastectomy services, including prostheses fittings for women who have had breast surgery. She obtained certification ...

There are options available if people are unhappy with the results of their breast construction surgery after a mastectomy. These may include waiting for the breasts to settle and heal, using scar ...

The American Association of Breast Care Professionals (AABCP) has completed a textbook dedicated to post-mastectomy fitting and survivorship care.

Who knew it would be so hard to find a replacement boob? I wasn’t eager to have this information, but when a stubborn sarcoma invaded my left upper chest and required a modified radical mastectomy, I ...

Nancy Waithera, right, tries on a knitted breast prosthesis as Mary Mwangi, 52, looks on Jan. 30 at her shop in Thika, Kiambu County, Kenya. (Samson Otieno/Associated Press) THIKA, Kenya — When Mary ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Bertha Ponce caught it early. "By the 29th of April, they diagnosed it. It was cancer, but May the 25th, I didn't have a breast already. Everything got moved immediately," said ...

A quiet plant growing in water might not seem like the beginning of a medical innovation. Yet in a design lab at the University of the Philippines, that plant became the starting point for something ...