A study by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention investigators reveals that breast cancer survivors who eat more cruciferous vegetables may have improved survival.

The study of…

Certain vegetables could help improve survival rates for breast cancer patients.

Green vegetables like broccoli, kale, cabbage and brussels sprouts have been shown to reduce the risk of…

Women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) who opt to preserve the affected breast face continued diagnostic and invasive procedures potentially for years after surgery, researchers found.

Over 10 years, more than…

More than half of women in the U.S. who get annual mammograms will have at least one false-positive reading after 10 years of screening, and now new research suggests that these…

False-positive mammograms could be an indicator of underlying pathology that could result in breast cancer, according to a study published April 5 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) have high rates of diagnostic and invasive breast procedures after treatment with breast-conserving surgery (BCS) according to a study published…

One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. The earlier cancer is detected, the better the chance of successful treatment and long-term survival.…

The breast cancer is more deadly to black women than to whites, a new study found.

This finding was published online Monday on the “Journal of Clinical Oncology” in the United…

While the prevalence of breast cancer among women in Asia is lower than it is in much of the world, those who are hit by it in China tend to…

Breast cancer rates in Shanghai have increased by almost a third since the 1970s, health officials said ahead of International Women’s Day today.

This is due to a…

–Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a very aggressive, often misunderstood type of cancer that is diagnosed more frequently in younger women compared with other types…

An international team of scientists, including four at Simon Fraser University, has made a discovery that will change the way the most deadly form of breast cancer is treated.

Adding an ultrasound to annual mammograms for women at higher-than-average breast cancer risk helps catch more early-stage tumors - but also ups the chance that healthy women will get follow-up…

The link between hormone therapy (HT) for menopausal women and breast cancer risk has been researched extensively, and now a new study has found any type of hormone…

A new report suggests that when a breast cancer screening program was rolled out in Norway, up to 10 women were diagnosed and treated for cancer unnecessarily for every breast cancer…

Eating soy could pose risks to some women who begin consuming it as adults by making breast cancer tumors resistant to treatment, US researchers said on Monday.

A study on lab…

Many older women with newly diagnosed breast cancer might safely avoid adjuvant radiation therapy, according to a study reported here.

Radiation therapy did not reduce the risk of local…

Roche said patients with an aggressive type of breast cancer lived longer after taking its experimental “armed antibody” drug without the disease worsening than those on a…

Four proteins involved in translation, the final step of general protein production, are associated with poor prognosis in hormone-receptor-positive breast cancer when they are dysregulated, researchers reported…

New research shows it may be no accident when doctors observe how patients suffering from both breast cancer and arthritis seem to have more aggressive cancer. However, the new-found…

In a landmark study, researchers have linked the long-term use of estrogen plus progesterone and estrogen-only hormone therapy with a higher risk for developing…

At the time of diagnosis, the majority of breast cancers are categorized as estrogen-receptor positive, or hormone sensitive, which means their cancerous cells may need estrogen…

Mutations in a gene called XRCC2 cause increased breast cancer risk, according to a study published today in the American Journal of Human Genetics. The study looked at families that have…

Professor Melissa Southey of the Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Department of Pathology at the University of Melbourne, who led the study, said it was a significant discovery and…

Quebec’s College of Physicians has found that a doctor who worked at three radiology clinics missed breast cancer in 109 women during routine mammography screening from 2008…