Peggy learned that she had DCIS in her left breast in 2018 over the phone. The impersonal approach hurt. “I guess I was assuming that…
Happy New Year, everyone! This year brings hope and continued challenges as we all face the blank slate of a new year along with the…
Drs. Ron Israeli and Jonathan Bank joined Cancer Fashionista Melissa Berry on her podcast, Dear Cancer, I’m Beautiful, to talk about their collaborative artistic endeavor,…
A lumpectomy is not always a reconstruction-free breast cancer treatment option. When Mary chose to have a lumpectomy with radiation to treat stage 0 breast…
Post Mastectomy Pain Syndrome (PMPS)—a chronic pain condition that persists for months or years after breast surgery—affects countless women every year. While it was once…
Clinical Director of the Patient Empowerment Program, Mollie Sugarman, has spent countless hours with newly diagnosed breast cancer patients. The diagnosis is unmooring. It can…
Breast reconstruction has evolved tremendously over the last twenty years of my surgical career. We have improved upon existing procedures such as the DIEP flap…
As many of our patients know, I think of the new year as an opportunity to begin anew. I talk often about the “tabula rasa”…
“I’ve been through it, and it was scary as hell, but I knew that I had to just keep moving to get into the light.…
“Menopause is really a clinical definition. It’s a year with no menstrual cycles. It’s not determined by blood levels, and there’s no way to know…