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Genetic test could help those at risk of breast cancer

The new test would be able to give women more options in terms of treatment for the disease.

9 Oct 2017 10:05 AM GMT

The study found that women who opted for a bilateral mastectomy with reconstruction missed more than a month of work or stopped altogether. (Photo: Pixabay)

Double mastectomy may negatively affect employment: study

The study found that women who opted for a bilateral mastectomy with reconstruction missed more than a month of work or...

9 Oct 2017 8:09 AM GMT

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Young women at high genetic risk of breast cancer

Young women with a family history of breast cancer may feel that they should be tested as early as possible.

30 May 2018 1:07 PM GMT

Women who got reconstruction also tended to have less advanced cancer than women who only got a mastectomy (Photo: AFP)

Study indicates women with breast cancer may misjudge effects of...

Whether women got only a mastectomy or also reconstruction, they experienced more breast numbness afterwards than they...

2 March 2018 3:39 AM GMT

Its an effective non-pharmacologic pain management options (Photo: AFP)

Mastectomy recovery can be aided by acupuncture

Acupuncture after mastectomy is not only feasible, it also appears to decrease patients' symptoms of pain, nausea etc.

2 Dec 2016 4:39 AM GMT