Your recovery timeline is affected by these factors and many others, including the type of lumpectomy performed and the stage of cancer. Following your surgeon's guidelines on follow-up care will ...

A breast cancer diagnosis often arrives as a profound turning point, bringing uncertainty and complex emotions. While the ...

They base their recommendations on the following: Reasons you might choose a lumpectomy include: The recovery time for a lumpectomy is approximately 2 to 3 weeks, compared to between 3 and 6 weeks ...

Here, Michelle Hill, 31, who lives with her partner, Cliff, and son Caleb in Swanley, Kent, and works for a London investment firm, tells us about having a lumpectomy, and a leading breast cancer ...

Patients with localized breast cancer who undergo lumpectomy generally also receive radiotherapy to prevent local recurrence. Because tamoxifen also reduces the incidence of local recurrence ...

In my last column I shared with you that I was walking down the path of determining whether or not I had breast cancer. A routine mammogram led to more images, which led to a biopsy, which led to ...

Diagnosis: Stage T1bN0M0 left breast cancer. Management: Lumpectomy, sentinel lymph-node biopsy and fractionated partial breast irradiation using 3-dimensional conformal technique. The ...