A healthy living blog from Marshfield Clinic Health System
Breast reconstruction is a common procedure that uses soft tissue flaps and/or implants to reconstruct a breast for patients after a mastectomy surgery for breast cancer. A mastectomy is…
Doctors have seen a concerning trend in recent years: Women diagnosed with cancer in one breast choosing to have double mastectomies to reduce cancer risk in the other breast.…
Getting a mammogram is the most common way to catch breast cancer. However if you have increased risk for the disease, chemoprevention is a relatively new process that actually works to…
Inflammatory breast cancer is an advanced form of breast cancer where there is a noticeable change in the skin on your breast. “If a patient presents with advanced stage,…
Mammography is the primary screening test for breast cancer in women with no known breast problems. Conventional mammograms are performed by taking 2D pictures of the breast. 3D mammograms…
Many patients may not realize that they are at high risk for developing breast cancer. Family history of breast cancer is important to consider but it is not the…
Pink ribbons have become the symbol of breast cancer, a disease you may think only affects women. Not so, because men can be affected as well. And although symptoms…
Radiation has been part of breast cancer treatment since early 1900s. It has given many people the chance to survive breast cancer, but some survivors experienced an unwanted side…
A Marshfield Clinic Health System team of breast cancer specialists can treat some early stage breast cancers in 12 days. This is done using a procedure called accelerated partial breast irradiation…