Bedford Breast Center
436 N Bedford Dr, Ste 308
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Phone: (310) 278-8590
Monday – Friday: 9 a.m.– 5 p.m.
Women (and even physicians!) often ask if it's safe not to remove the nipple during a mastectomy. The short answer is yes. Statistics have shown it is oncologically safe to preserve the nipple during mastectomy. To discover how the standard progressed from radical mastectomy to the current skin and nipple-sparing standard of care, keep reading. …
In the not-so-distant past, it was a typical occurrence for women who went into surgery to have a breast lump of uncertain significance removed, only to wake up without a breast if it was cancer or with a scarred, biopsied breast if it wasn't. Thanks to new breast reconstruction techniques like SWIM reconstruction and direct-to-implant …
