Breast Cancer Rate Falls in U.S., Study Shows
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Rates of the most common form of breast cancer dropped a stunning 15 percent from August 2002 to December 2003, researchers reported on Thursday.
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Side effects are causing women to stop taking pills that can help keep breast cancer from returning, and women who stop taking the pills risk early death, according to several reports released on Thursday.
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African-American women in the US are far less likely to undergo breast reconstruction following mastectomy than white women, regardless of socioeconomic factors, new research indicates.
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NEW YORK  - New research provides more  evidence that childbearing factors, especially those related to  a first pregnancy, influence a woman's risk of breast cancer.
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Scientists have identified a gene variation found in about 13 percent of women of European descent that reduces their risk of developing breast cancer, a study released on Sunday said.
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The death rate from breast cancer continues to drop steadily by about 2 percent a year, but black women are not seeing the same benefits as whites, the American Cancer Society said on Tuesday.
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Boston researchers say many women at high risk for breast cancer are declining tamoxifen, the first approved drug for prevention of breast cancer.
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NEW YORK  - Women in their 40s, who tend to have relatively dense breast tissue, are more likely to have a breast tumor missed on a screening mammogram than are older women, new study findings suggest.
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Cancer death rates are down in the United States, but certain cancers seem to be becoming more common. Why?
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NEW YORK  - Invasive breast cancer rates have fallen since the substantial decline in postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) occurred, even after a decline in breast cancer screening rates, according to findings published in the 5th Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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NEW YORK  - Breast cancer screening in the  US is common among women 80 years of age or older, but it is of  little benefit to the majority of them, according to a new  study.
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Mammography may be less effective in detecting breast cancer in women with certain characteristics, including use of hormone replacement therapy, previous breast surgery and normal or
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Black American women are less likely than women of other races to have breast reconstruction after mastectomy, says a study published in the online edition of the journal Cancer.
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SAN ANTONIO -- In a startling turnaround, breast cancer rates in the United States dropped dramatically in 2003, and experts said they believe it is because many women stopped taking hormone pills.
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Almost half of young women in Britain would cut down on their drinking to reduce their risk of getting breast cancer, a survey revealed.
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Good news continues to come forth from the cancer front: U.S. death rates from the disease have declined by 18.4 percent among men and by 10.5 percent among women since mortality rates first started going down in the early 1990s.
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Women with breast cancer detected during a mammogram have a lower risk that the tumors will recur than women diagnosed without the screening test, according to a study in the Sept.