Women aged 50 to 74 years who get mammograms every other year instead of every year are at a lower risk of false-positive results and at a similar…

A novel receptor-targeted radioactive tracer for intraoperative lymphatic mapping (ILM) - technetium Tc 99m tilmanocept (Lymphoseek, Navidea Biopharmaceuticals) - has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration…

Women treated with radiation for breast cancer are more likely to develop heart problems later, even with the lower doses used now, troubling new research suggests. The risk comes from any…

Twenty-three percent of women who are newly diagnosed with breast cancer have PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) symptoms, researchers from the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center (HICCC) at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical…

Women with late-stage breast cancer have lower survival rates in the UK than five other high-income countries, including Sweden and Canada, suggests a study in the British Journal of Cancer.

The rate of advanced breast cancer for U.S. women 25 to 39 years old nearly doubled from 1976 to 2009, a difference too great to be a matter of chance, a…

There is a set back in the fight against breast cancer. More young women are getting advanced, deadly forms of cancer.

When Sue Ellen Jimenez of Cranston…

More young women are being diagnosed with advanced, metastatic breast cancer than were three decades ago, a new study suggests - although the overall rate of cancers in that…

Women who have had the lymph nodes under their arm surgically removed during breast cancer treatment are warned to avoid certain practices that can cause lymphedema…

A lifelong diet rich in omega-3 fatty acids can inhibit growth of breast cancer tumours by 30 per cent, according to new research from the University…

A breast cancer risk prediction model developed for African Americans tends to underestimate risk in certain subgroups, according to a new study from the Slone Epidemiology…

An anti-copper drug compound that disables the ability of bone marrow cells from setting up a “home” in organs to receive and nurture migrating cancer tumor…

Triple-negative breast cancers are more biologically diverse than previously believed and classification should be expanded to reflect this heterogeneity, according to University of North Carolina researchers.

In a…

Breast cancer rates continue to rise in the U.S. - even beyond the extra cancers detected through mammography and other screening techniques - and…

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have uncovered a human enzyme responsible for causing DNA mutations found in the majority of breast cancers. The discovery of this…

Among older women, getting a mammogram every two years was just as beneficial as getting a mammogram annually, and led to…

The texture of breast cancer tissue differs from that of healthy tissue. Using a cutting-edge tissue diagnostic device, a group of researchers in Basel, Switzerland, has determined one key difference: cancerous…

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., have developed a novel computer algorithm to easily quantify a…

Spending a lot of time watching television after breast cancer diagnosis is not linked to death in these breast cancer survivors. It appears that…

According to a new study among early stage breast cancer survivors, those who receive a lumpectomy plus radiation and those who have a mastectomy both have similar rates of survival.…

The mutation in the BRCA gene, which raises risk of breast cancer in women, also significantly raises the risk of these women in experiencing an early menopause, along…

Women with harmful mutations in the BRCA gene, which put them at higher risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer, tend to undergo menopause significantly…

Last summer, Toni Spring was in the early stages of breast cancer. Consultations with two different doctors convinced her to schedule a mastectomy.

Patients with early stage breast cancer who are treated with lumpectomy plus radiation have a better chance of survival compared with those who undergo mastectomy, according…

A new analysis has found that lumpectomy plus radiation for early breast cancer may provide patients with a better chance of survival than mastectomy.…