Breast cancer cases have soared
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Breast cancer cases have soared in the last three decades in England - but death rates are reducing.
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Lorie Williams thought for months that she might have a lump in her breast. But when the doctor said it was cancer, she was still stunned. After all, she was just 29 years old, no one in her family had ever had breast cancer, and she had never heard of anyone getting the disease so young.
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This year, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will report 5,170 new cases of breast cancer and more than 960 female breast cancer deaths, according to the American Cancer Society.
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NEW YORK  - New research provides more evidence that childbearing factors, especially those related to a first pregnancy, influence a woman&#39;s risk of breast cancer.
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Marian C. Bennett found more than cancer when she discovered a lump in her breast five years ago. She found a cause she thought was worth fighting for.
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Researchers find a strong association between body mass index and a variety of cancers.
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Breast cancer has risen sharply in China's capital and its top financial centre during the last decade due to unhealthy diets, a poor environment and increased stress at work, state media reported on Tuesday.
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Aug. 18, 2004 - The number of tumor cells in the blood of women with advanced-stage breast cancer predicts the success of their treatment, according to a new study in The New England Journal of Medicine.
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a month dedicated to increasing public knowledge about a disease that will strike an estimated 215,990 women in the United States this year.
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Dec. 9 - Breast cancer is the commonest cancer among women. One in 9 will get it. 41,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. But with treatment, 77% survive.
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A woman twice told she was in the clear after cancer tests is among hundreds of cases under review.
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Increasing numbers of Chinese urban women are  suffering from breast cancer due to unhealthy diets and a spike in work stress in the rapidly modernising country, state media said Tuesday.
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A new technology that counts cancer cells in the blood helps predict the success of breast cancer treatments more quickly and more reliably than established methods, researchers reported.
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THE REPORT: Doctors are reporting that a new breast cancer drug outperforms the tried-and-true tamoxifen at preventing the disease from recurring.
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A major new research project into the causes of breast cancer was launched this week. A 50-year project, called The Breakthrough Generations Study, aims to recruit 100,000 women age 18 or older to the largest
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Doctors researching breast cancer say a new drug has had "exciting" results.
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Older women who take hormone pills that combine estrogen and testosterone more than double their risk of breast cancer, according to a study of more than 70,000 nurses.