A Kenyan woman who survived breast cancer is knitting prostheses and training others to make them in a country where silicone ...

Bringing 12 years of experiece with her, Ulferts will be offering pre- and post-mastectomy services, including prostheses fittings for women who have had breast surgery. She obtained certification ...

A quiet plant growing in water might not seem like the beginning of a medical innovation. Yet in a design lab at the University of the Philippines, that plant ...

PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - Less than a year after a breast cancer diagnosis and double mastectomy, Mary McMichael says she’s still trying to adjust to her new normal in fashion and in life. At just 41 ...

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 ...

After a recent fiasco while trying to order prostheses and bras, I have an important question I’d like answered. It was almost the end of the year and we were so excited because my husband was going ...

Fargo and West Fargo knitters and crocheters hatch 'skein' to make soft, comfortable, washable and realistic breast prostheses to women who have had mastectomies. And they're entirely free. Beth ...

Cheryl Schlote, owner of Scarlet’s Unmentionables, stands in her store Aug. 20 in North Liberty. Schlote, who is undergoing chemotherapy herself for colon cancer, fits women for breast prostheses and ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Bertha Ponce caught it early. "By the 29th of April, they diagnosed it. It was cancer, but May the 25th, I didn't have a breast already. Everything got moved immediately," said ...

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 ...

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, ...