What makes a woman feel "whole again" after a mastectomy is incredibly personal and individual. Some women are comfortable " going flat" and some feel that reconstructed breast mounds are enough, ...

Even after her second breast reconstruction, Pamela Harvey wasn’t herself. Almost six years after she chose to treat her ductal carcinoma with a unilateral mastectomy, Dr. Steven Gordon of Houston ...

Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in U.S. women with about 1 in 8 women diagnosed over the course of their lifetime. In about 35% of cases, a mastectomy is part of a woman's treatment plan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. About three years ago, Aileen Budow went in for breast reduction surgery — and ended up with a breast cancer diagnosis. "There's a ...

Tim Cox, a medical tattooist, is on a mission to help as many breast cancer survivors as he can with 3D areola tattoos. Cox's tattoos are designed to look very real, like what was lost. Tim Cox, a ...

MT. LAUREL, N.J. (WPVI) -- A South Jersey permanent cosmetics institute is again offering women who've had breast reconstruction surgery a chance to get complimentary 3-dimensional areola and nipple ...

PHILADELPHIA — After she lost her right breast, Marianne Sarcich trained herself to not look down. The breast cancer that invaded the North Wilmington mom's body last August forced her to have a ...

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Long Islanders who have braved mastectomies and breast reconstructions will no longer face a hurdle that added to worries for some: health insurers refusing to cover the cost of nipple tattoos.