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.…

The spread of breast cancer to distant organs within the body, an event that often leads to death, appears in many cases to involve the loss of a…

Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found qigong, an ancient mind-body practice, reduces depressive symptoms and improves quality of…

In recent years, it has been thought that select sets of genes might reveal cancer patients’ prognoses. However, a study published last year examining breast…

A team of researchers led by Goutham Narla, MD, PhD, at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and collaborators at…

Research led by Dr. Suresh Alahari, the Fred Brazda Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans and its Stanley S.…

In research published in the Jan. 17 issue of The Journal of Cell Biology, a team led by Susana Gonzalo, Ph.D., assistant professor of…

Since 1992 the number of deaths linked to breast cancer in Spain has decreased among young and middle aged patients but not among the elderly. Spanish researchers…

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women in the United States. Many of these deaths occur…

Spin and bias exist in a high proportion of published studies of the outcomes and adverse side-effects of phase III clinical trials of breast cancer treatments, according…

For older women, cheaper methods of detecting breast cancer may be as good as more expensive ones, according to the latest research.

Medicare spending on breast cancer screenings like…

Medicare spends almost as much money screening for breast cancer as it does treating it, according to a new study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Breast cancer screenings cost Medicare $1.08…

New research published in the January issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine shows that 18F-fludeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT)…

Australian scientists have shown in the laboratory how a ‘transcription factor’ causes breast cancer cells to develop an aggressive subtype that lacks sensitivity to estrogen and does not…

The discovery that a protein which triggers milk production in women may also be responsible for making breast cancers aggressive could open up new opportunities for treatment of the…

Over the past couple of years research into miRNAs has become increasingly diversified and attracted a great number of research articles across genetics and medicine. This should hardly come as…

The DNA mutations that accumulate over time as women age are not the sole contributor to the higher frequency of breast cancer in…

European health regulators recommended Roche’s breast cancer drug Perjeta for approval on Friday, cementing the company’s hopes that the drug will become the standard of care for an…

Women who have higher levels of nutrients commonly found in vegetables may have a lower risk of developing breast cancer, say researchers at Brigham & Women’s…

A randomized trial found bevacizumab (Avastin) failed to improve outcomes in combination with chemotherapy in early triple-negative breast cancer, adding to the string of failures for the drug.

Invasive…

Vitamin D levels may be part of the reason some women saw a benefit from adding a bone drug to standard breast cancer chemotherapy regimens, a researcher said.

Postmenopausal women…