At 26, I chose a preventive double mastectomy after testing positive for the BRCA1 genetic mutation. The 13-month reconstruction process was physically painful, and people's jokes didn't help. Opening ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Bette Bentley, founder of Skimpies. It has been edited for length and clarity. My grandmother died of breast cancer at 40, so I went for my first ...

Mandy Moore of Disputanta wanted her implants removed. Instead, she underwent multiple breast surgeries that she claimed were unnecessary and damaging. A Virginia woman says she walked into a local ...

The surgery I always knew I'd have—and what it actually felt like to go through it.