Breast

Breast Disease

What is a Mastectomy? Mastectomy is surgery to remove all breast tissue from a breast as a way to treat or prevent breast cancer.   Mastectomy is used to remove all breast tissue if you have breast cancer or are at very high risk of developing it....

Microcalcifications of breast The calcium you eat or take in as medicine does not cause calcifications in the breast. Most calcifications are not a sign of cancer. Causes may include: Calcium deposits in the arteries inside your breasts History of breast infection Noncancerous (benign) breast lumps...

Male Breast Cancer Although breast cancer is much more common in women, men can get it too. It happens most often to men between the ages of 60 and 70. Breast lumps usually aren't cancer. However, most men with breast cancer have lumps. Other breast symptoms...

Excision of Breast Tumor

Abnormal mammogram Most of the time, women getting their routine mammogram will receive a letter within 30 days saying the results were normal. But if doctors find something suspicious, they’ll call you back – usually within just 5 days – to take new pictures or...

BRCA positive BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutation testing can give several possible results: a positive result, a negative result, or an ambiguous or uncertain result. A positive test result indicates that a person has inherited a known harmful mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 and, therefore, has...