Breast Cancer news

Antiestrogen Therapy May Decrease Risk for Melanoma

Women with breast cancer who take antiestrogen supplements may be decreasing their risk for melanoma, according to a…    

Moderate Red Wine Drinking May Help Cut Women’s Breast Cancer Risk

Drinking red wine in moderation may reduce one of the risk factors for breast cancer, providing a natural…    

UK wants results of breast implant review this week

Britain expects the results of a review of breast implant safety to come this week following a global…    

France to offer surgery if breast implants a risk

France will offer surgery to remove the breast implants of up to 30,000 women if a study due…    

Breast cancer and heart disease may have common roots

Women who are at risk for breast cancer may also be at greater risk for heart disease, new…    

No brakes on breast cancer cells

MicroRNAs or miRNAs are tiny RNA molecules that have only about 20 nucleotides and do not code for…    

Mammography Study in BMJ Flawed: Discredited Data Used

Discredited and obsolete data used in Raftery and Chorozoglou, published Dec. 8 in the British Medical Journal, underestimated…    

Breast cancer survivors struggle with cognitive problems several years after treatment

A new analysis has found that breast cancer survivors may experience problems with certain mental abilities several years…    

Why women quit breast cancer drugs early

Why do so many postmenopausal women who are treated for estrogen-sensitive breast cancer quit using drugs that help…    

Circulating tumor cells not linked to survival in newly diagnosed inflammatory breast cancer

The presence of circulating tumor cells in the blood appears to have no relationship to survival in women…    

Breast Cancer Mortality Higher in Hispanic Women

Hispanic women are more likely to die from breast cancer than non-Hispanic white women, according to research presented…    

MRI May Be Noninvasive Method to Measure Breast Cancer Prognosis

Quantitative magnetic resonance imaging measures were associated with prognostic tumor markers, demonstrating the potential of magnetic resonance imaging…    

Obese Patients with HER2-Positive Breast Cancer May Have Worse Outcomes

Obese patients with early-stage HER2-positive breast cancer may have worse outcomes than patients who are normal weight or…    

Women advised to avoid ZEN bust-enhancing supplements because of possible cancer risk

Women who use bust-enhancing dietary supplements containing the mycoestrogen zearalenone (ZEN), a naturally occurring toxin that widely contaminates…    

Quicker radiation therapy doubles mastectomy risk

Women who get a quicker, localized form of radiation treatment for early-stage breast cancer are more likely to…    

Novel approach to treating breast cancer shows great promise

In a novel therapeutic approach to treating breast cancer, Loyola University Medical Center researchers are reporting positive results…    

Mammography screening reduced risk for death from breast cancer by half

A new case-control study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for…    

Study finds side effects, complications, mastectomy more likely after partial breast irradiation

Accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) brachytherapy, the localized form of radiation therapy growing increasingly popular as a treatment…    

Advanced Age Should Not Deter Women from Breast Reconstruction after Cancer

Breast cancer is on the rise and 48 percent of all breast cancers occur in women older than…    

LSUHSC research finds many women not receiving recommended breast cancer adjuvant treatment

A first-of-its kind study led by Xiao-Cheng Wu, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Public Health at LSU Health…