Medicare covers medically necessary treatment of breast cancer. This includes a mastectomy or a double mastectomy, as well as reconstruction and prosthesis surgery. Original Medicare Part A covers ...

After a mastectomy, you might choose to forgo or delay reconstructive surgery. However, you may wish still to have the appearance of breasts under your clothes. You have the option of external breast ...

Vol. 1, No. 3, Special Issue: Beauty and Business Guest Editor: Kathy Peiss (SEPTEMBER 2000), pp. 565-590 (26 pages) As the public discussion of all cancers, and of breast cancer in particular, ...

Medicare coverage for breast prostheses and mastectomy bras is often limited to 50%, leading to high out-of-pocket expenses for patients. The Women's Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1998 does not ...

BEIJING, March 6 (Reuters) - (This March 6 story has been corrected to fix the number of sizes of prosthetics to seven, not three, in paragraph 4) Emily Yu, a longtime Beijing-based lingerie designer, ...

MOLINE -- The knitted prostheses created by Tova Cravens have traveled as far as Denmark. Mrs. Cravens, of Orion, began knitting prostheses for local mastectomy patients in 2011. Since then, she has ...

A new specialist clinic in Leighton Buzzard is offering a lifeline to patients living with the lasting impact of cancer, trauma, or congenital conditions. Founded by Anna Veli, a Harpenden-based ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - After 51 years supporting fighters and survivors of breast cancer, A Fitting Place has undergone a remodel they hope will launch them into another successful 50 years. A Fitting ...