Doctors Discuss Breast Cancer Surgery Innovations

New procedures are helping women survive breast cancer, while also enabling them to look and feel better. Dr. Lori Timmerman, a breast surgical oncologist at the Penn Medicine | Virtua Health Cancer Program, provides a minimally invasive, endoscopic nipple-sparing mastectomy—and recently began offering a robotic-assisted version of the surgery. She often works in tandem with Dr. Prakash Mathew, a microvascular plastic surgeon. Dr. Mathew is one of the few surgeons who offer an advanced technique that can restore sensation.

Read in BINJE.