Doctor's Blog

DIEP flap reconstruction has come a long way since the early description of the procedure in the early 1990s. Our understanding of the perforating vessels that supply circulation to the lower abdominal skin and fat has evolved. Everyone’s anatomy ...

Breast conservation therapy (lumpectomy + radiation) has demonstrated equivalent overall survival to mastectomy. The early experience with breast conservation was focused on treating the cancer far more than consideration of the aesthetic outcome ...

Patients with stage III breast cancer, and now some patients with stage II breast cancer, are recommended to have ‘post–mastectomy radiation’. This will often be referred to as ‘chest wall radiation’. Contrast this to ‘whole breast radiation’, whi...

Lumpectomy and radiation, also known as Breast Conservation Therapy (BCT), is an increasingly common way to treat breast cancer, especially in women with larger breasts and smaller tumors. Although BCT has similar survival rates compared to women ...

Choosing between breast conservation therapy (BCT) and mastectomy can be very difficult decision for a woman to make. Most women like the idea of preserving the majority of their breast and nipple with the hope of minimal cosmetic deformity in the...

For women who undergo mastectomy with expander or implant reconstruction, it is common to spend one or two nights in the hospital. Women are usually prescribed narcotic pain medicines and muscle relaxants which are usually weaned off in a couple w...