A conservative approach to removing lymph nodes is associated with less harm for breast cancer patients and often yields the same results as more radical…

Scientific data suggest that a woman reduces her risk of breast cancer by breastfeeding, having multiple children and giving birth at a younger age. A study led…

Approximately one in eight American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer over her lifetime. This year alone, that’s 232,340 women who will learn they have invasive breast…

Many older women with newly diagnosed breast cancer have difficulty accomplishing daily tasks, and African-Americans seem to be disproportionately affected. Those are the findings of a new…

Breast cancer that spreads to other organs is extremely difficult to treat. Doctors can buy patients time, but a cure remains elusive. Now, researchers at Washington University…

The U.S. health system that cares for the nation’s veterans increased services to screen for and treat breast cancer over the past five years, but at one hospital the time it…

Results of EORTC trial 10853 appearing in the Journal of Clinical Oncology show that breast conserving treatment combined with radiotherapy reduces…

Young women with breast cancer often overestimate both their chance of developing cancer in the other breast and how much removal of that breast is likely to protect them,…

A federal advisory committee cleared the way on Thursday for the first approval of a cancer drug that would be used to treat patients before surgery to remove…

Exposing young women and girls under the age of 20 to ionizing radiation can substantially raise the risk of their developing breast cancer later in…

A team of California-based breast imagers and breast cancer risk specialists have developed a website to help navigate the new challenges posed by breast density notification laws, according…

Here’s a sobering fact for millions of young women heading back to school: The more alcohol they drink before motherhood, the greater their risk of future breast cancer.

That’s according to…

Women were more likely to want surgery when they were told they had a type of breast cancer than when the diagnosis was a breast lesion…

Women undergoing treatment for breast cancer are widely prescribed calcium and vitamin D supplements to prevent and manage osteoporosis, an unwanted side effect of breast…

Based on data from a multi-site imaging trial involving more than 2,600 women, researchers say breast lesions categorized as ‘probably benign’ on supplemental screening ultrasound…

Taking tamoxifen is tied to a sharply reduced risk of a second breast cancer among women who carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 “breast cancer genes,” new research shows.

Women…

Despite taking a tailored risk assessment tool that factors in family history and personal habits, nearly 20 percent of women did not believe their breast cancer risk,…

In a new paper in Cancer Cell, a team led by Judy Lieberman, PhD, of Boston Children’s Hospital’s Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine…

A unique nanoscale drug that can carry a variety of weapons and sneak into cancer cells to break them down from the inside has…

Breast reduction surgery produces measurable improvements in several important areas of health and quality of life, reports a study in the August issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery®,…

After a breast cancer operation, the removed tumour is always examined, as its subtype can provide an indication of how aggressive the disease is. The patient’s lymph…

Differences in the health and tumor characteristics of white and black women with breast cancer at the time of their diagnoses may be largely to blame for the…

The rate at which women get called back for additional imaging after screening mammography may be higher at hospitals than at community office practices, mostly due to differences among the patients,…

A new study at Rhode Island Hospital has found that academic medical centers have higher rates of recall following mammography than community radiology centers. The…

A new finding provides fresh hope for the millions worldwide with oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer. Australian scientists have shown that a specific change, which occurs when tumours become resistant…