Study: Adolescence Affects Breast Cancer
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The way a girl grows during adolescence and even in the womb may play an important, if murky, role in her risk of breast cancer later in life, a study suggests. The study of 117,000 women in Denmark found that those who were chubby at birth but tall and lean at 14 were more likely to develop the disease...
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NEW YORK  - Recreational physical activity   in the year before a diagnosis of breast cancer seems to have a   positive influence on the prognosis of young women who are   overweight or obese when they are diagnosed, new research   suggests.
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Adults with mental disorders are at higher risk of brain tumors and lung cancer and developing these cancers at younger ages than individuals without mental illness, according to a study in the new issue of Psychosomatic Medicine.
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NEW YORK  - Young women with breast cancer  are at increased risk for having their cancer return if they  are treated with mastectomy alone, new research suggests. This  may be because surgery stimulates dormant cells to become  cancerous.
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NEW YORK  - Women who survived childhood cancer have an increased risk of developing breast cancer compared with other women their age, the results of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study reveal.
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NEW YORK  - Black women who feel they've been victims of racial discrimination are more likely than their peers to develop breast cancer, a large study suggests.
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Tall, thin teenage girls who put on a growth spurt at puberty are at highest risk of breast cancer - and milk may be the culprit, researchers suggest today.
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NEW YORK  - The time of year in which a  person is born may somehow sway the risk of developing brain  cancer in adulthood, new research suggests.
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A study of more than 117,000 Danish  women provides the most convincing evidence yet of a link  between a girl's growth rate and her risk of developing breast  cancer later in life, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Many teenage boys experience some degree of enlargement of the breasts around the time of puberty. When the condition is troublesome, anti-estrogen drugs seem to be a safe and effective means of reducing breast size, according to a new study.
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NEW YORK  - Women who survived childhood  cancer have an increased risk of developing breast cancer  compared with other women their age, the results of the  Childhood Cancer Survivor Study reveal.
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MONDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) -- Cancer tends to grow faster in children than in adults, but a new study finds there&#39;s scant evidence on how delays in diagnosis might affect outcomes.
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NEW YORK OCT 18, 2004  - Children who are overweight appear to have an increased risk of cancer in later life, according to the results of a study published in the November 1st issue of the International Journal of Cancer.
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People with mental disorders develop cancer at younger ages and have higher odds of later being diagnosed with certain cancers, including tumors of the brain and lung, according to a new analysis of insurance claims.
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FRIDAY, Oct. 15 (HealthDayNews) -- Concerns about infertility resulting from breast cancer therapy influenced treatment decisions in nearly one-third of young patients, according to a study published in the Oct. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
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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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Childbearing factors, particularly those related to a first pregnancy, can influence a woman&#39;s risk of developing breast cancer, according to a study published in the Nov. 1 issue of the International Journal