Breasts

Understand breast health, development, and common concerns from adolescence onwards. Find reassuring information and guidance on when to seek medical advice.

Benefits of Tamoxifen

Tamoxifen is a drug used to treat breast tumours that are sensitive to the hormone oestrogen. The drug molecule binds to the oestrogen receptors on the surfa...

Breast Enlargement Surgery

Breast enlargement surgery is becoming more and more popular amongst young women. Many people are unhappy with their body image and feel that cosmetic surger...

Breast Feeding Facts

Breastfeeding was once the only method of feeding babies and is considered to be the safest and most beneficial way of providing fluid and nutrition for a gr...

Breast Reconstruction Surgery: The Latissmus Dorsi Flap

Treatment for breast cancer that is diagnosed in its early stages involves some sort of surgery to try to remove the entire tumour from the body. Studies hav...

Breast Reduction Surgery

There are many women who are concerned about the size and shape of their breasts and surgical procedures are available for those who believe their breasts ca...

Breast Screening Services

To find out you may have breast cancer can be an extremely frightening and emotional time. It may be that you have found a lump or noticed some changes to yo...

Breast Tumours Explored

Women everywhere dread the day they find a breast lump in case it is a malignant tumour. For many though, these lumps can be harmless changes in tissue or cy...

Breasts - Self Examination

Early detection of breast cancer is imperative to ensure a good chance of survival. Those over 50 years will be offered routine breast screening in the form...

Improvements in Breast Cancer Survival

Having breast cancer diagnosed is something that every woman dreads. The facts show that actually dying from breast cancer is not inevitable though. With imp...

Lymphedema: What Causes It?

Lymphodema has a strict medical definition; it is the excess of lymph fluid that can accumulate in the tissues, usually the arms and legs. It can occur as pr...

Lymphoedema: Treatment and Support

After having surgery for breast cancer, which may remove some of the lymph nodes under the arm, one in five women find they are prone to lymphoedema, usually...

Taking a Breast Biopsy

For the hundreds of women who find a breast lump or are told that their routine mammogram has shown some abnormalities fear and anxiety are almost guaranteed...

What Are Breast Cysts?

The main thing to know about breast cysts is that they are usually completely harmless. Breast cysts are rarely connected with breast cancer and they do not...

What are Mammograms?

Many women will be advised at some point in their life to undergo a mammogram, this can strike fear in many women and cause unnecessary distress. What is a M...

What is Mastitis?

An inflammatory disorder, mastitis is a common and painful condition of the breasts that most commonly affects breast-feeding mothers or those who have devel...

What is Paget's Disease?

Paget’s disease of the breast is a form of breast cancer that affects 1-2% of women who are diagnosed with the disease. It is usually recognised early beca...