News tagged with 'Lumpectomy'

Milk duct breast cancer had typically had a worse prognosis in younger women, but this research out of Philadelphia's Fox Chase Cancer Center, found that a combination of multiple surgeries, radiation and targeted radiation led to outcomes similar to survival for older women. 

Shorter, intense radiation therapy for three weeks after surgery for early stage breast cancer keeps the disease under control just as well as lower doses for five weeks, a new study finds.