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If you've been diagnosed with breast cancer in Canada, there's a good chance your treatment plan will include radiation.
Radiation is always recommended if you have a lumpectomy, but you might also need radiation if you have a mastectomy if you don't have clear margins, or if you have cancer-positive axillary nodes. Here's some information about how you can help to keep your skin protected and prevent blistering during and after treatment.
If you've had a mammogram with suspicious results, you'll probably be referred for a breast biopsy.
A biopsy is the only way to be completely sure whether any suspicious area is cancer or not. In most cases, breast biopsies are imaging-guided, and most commonly, that means you will get an ultrasound-guided breast biopsy. Here's what you need to know.
If you're new to breast cancer and you've just heard the term triple-negative breast cancer, either during conversation or as part of your diagnosis, you might be wondering exactly what that means.
In this article, we're going to look at what triple negative breast cancer or TNBC as it's also known is, and what it means when this is part of your diagnosis.
It's one of the most common questions about breast cancer: what is breast cancer?
Most of us don't think about it too much until we find ourselves with a diagnosis, a long and complex road ahead of us, and a not-too-clear idea of what the enemy actually is. Here's what you need to know.