Mastectomy

Niki Zikmund thought she had done all the right things. She got plenty of exercise, breast fed her children, did not smoke and was not a heavy drinker. She was careful with her diet. In fact, she was a leader in the local Weight Watchers organization....

Irwin Symens has a pink tractor, and he's proud. “One person even said you'd never dream of a farmer that had guts enough to paint a tractor pink,” said Symens, 75, of Amherst. Symens had the custom pink paint job ordered in May to honor his...

Breast implants appear as a solid white mass on radiographic film, obscuring some breast tissue during mammography and other preventative breast cancer screenings. Whether implants impair the ability to detect breast cancer is a commonly asked question....

Irwin Symens has a pink tractor and isn't ashamed it. “One person even said you'd never dream of a farmer that had guts enough to paint a tractor pink,” said Symens, 75, of Amherst. Symens had the custom pink paint job ordered in May to honor his...

In the debate over whether breast self exams work, many women ask … can they really make a difference? Can I find my own cancer? And is it worth trying? A Chicago-area woman says statistics aside, she knows her life was in her own hands, and she made a...

If you're being treated for breast cancer, chances are you feel like something stuck to the bottom of a shoe. "Going through cancer treatment, people become unwell; they lose muscle mass, cardiovascular fitness and their activity levels go down," says...

After being diagnosed with breast cancer, Hollye Jacobs felt like she lost her health, her breasts and her mind. But when she finished with radiation and started settling in at home, she was hit with another loss: She missed having treatment. For many...

I don’t like to think of myself as a survivor. Instead, I like to think of myself as a fighter. I found a lump on my left breast while I was showering. I never really thought it could be breast cancer … not me … not this young; I don&...

There are few secrets in the workplace. People are too curious, too gossipy, too talkative. The details of our personal lives invariably spill over and co-workers are drawn to sympathize, empathize, celebrate — whatever response seems appropriate....

Pleasant Valley Middle School teacher, Kelli Frazier, loves history.  She even documents her own. "This was going from the chemo to the radiation treatments,” Kelli said. Kelli's scrapbook tells the story of her fight with breast cancer.  It...

It is just about as low as you can go - preying on people who love you, just to score a buck (or in this case some boobs). Jami Lynn Toler admits she lied to friends and family by telling them she had breast cancer and needed a double mastectomy. ...

The American Cancer Society estimates there are more than 2.9 million women living in the U.S. with a history of invasive breast cancer. Stacy Pingleton is one of those women.  Pingleton has a long family history of breast cancer. Her grandmother and...