Anne McFeely and Sara Altman are making a difference in women's lives. They are among hundreds of volunteers helping women who have had mastectomies and other breast surgeries by knitting "knockers." ...

Doctors and surgeons can do some pretty amazing things when it comes to helping a woman heal after breast cancer. Technology now makes it possible to reconstruct the breast to as close to a patient’s ...

Barbara Demorest hit bottom after being diagnosed with breast cancer four years ago. The diagnosis itself wasn’t the bottom for the Bellingham woman, nor was the mastectomy. Surgery complications that ...

About the only time Alyce Brekke isn’t knitting is when she’s asleep. The registered nurse knits on her coffee breaks at Lakeview Hospital in Stillwater. She knits while eating lunch. She knits while ...

Knitted knockers. Breast beanies. Tit bits. The names may be irreverent, but the intent is the same: Offer uplifting support – via bra inserts – to women after breast cancer surgery. Knitted knockers ...

Women who have undergone mastectomies, lumpectomies, radiation or are going through reconstruction now have an alternative to prosthetics which can be heavy, expensive and uncomfortable. Members of ...

Janet Downey had no idea what “knitted knockers” were when her nearby yarn shop (Heritage Spinning and Weaving in Lake Orion) announced there was a need. But after visiting the website for Knitted ...

BEND — When Barbara Mounho-Zamora dresses to go out to dinner or attend a wedding, she wears a little something extra. Make that a pair of little something extra. “I put on my knockers when I go out ...

MILWAUKEE -- The Clinical Cancer Center at Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin offers personalized treatments for cancer patients. One of the options that's very personalized: knitted ...

Knitted Knockers are lighter, softer, and more comfortable than silicone prostheses Volunteers around Australia knit them in various sizes and colours Almost 20,000 Australians will be diagnosed with ...