Family breast cancer history ups ovarian cancer risk
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NEW YORK  - A breast cancer family history,   as well as a woman's age and her own personal history of breast   cancer, may help identify women at increased risk of developing   ovarian cancer.
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NEW YORK  - Confirming previous research,  the results of a population-based Danish study show that a high  birth weight is associated with an increased risk of breast  cancer later in life.
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A married couple who sailed to America  from England around 1630 are the reason why thousands of people  in the United States are at higher risk of a hereditary form of  colon cancer, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Women drink two or more glasses of milk every day, or who have high amounts of older dairy products in their diet, appear to have a somewhat higher risk of one type of ovarian cancer, new research reports.
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Women with a high genetic risk for breast cancer run a better chance of having it detected with magnetic resonance imaging than with mammography and other methods, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Scientists identify four more genes that increase breast cancer risk which could result in better tests.
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Women who have a faster growth rate are at an increased risk of being exposed to breast cancer, a new research has revealed. The study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, reveals that women
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Gestational diabetes may be associated with a substantially increased risk for pancreatic cancer, a new study has found.
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Dr. Dale Sandler said women who share the same genes, have similar experiences and have twice the risk of developing breast cancer offer a better chance of learning what causes it.
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Hormone replacement therapy can raise the risk of an uncommon type of breast cancer fourfold after just three years, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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THURSDAY, June 28 (HealthDay News) -- Women can look to their mothers and sisters to help determine their chances of survival from breast cancer, new research suggests.
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Tools used to predict whether a woman's breast cancer is inherited do not account for smaller families and may leave some women in the dark about their risk for future cancers, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
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Tiny differences in genes linked to  the hormone estrogen can strongly influence a woman's risk of  developing breast cancer, U.S. researchers reported on  Wednesday.
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Scientists believe they have found a way to spot which breast and ovarian cancers are likely to be aggressive. A team from the University of Texas, in the US, found cancer cells that overexpressed a particular protein were more likely to be fatal.
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New research has found a higher risk of leukemia among older overweight women, offering another piece of evidence that carrying extra pounds can increase your chance of getting cancer.
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Women with a genetic predisposition to breast cancer who are successfully treated for the disease may still be at high risk for ovarian cancer, says a University of Toronto study.
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A longer interval between the  age a woman first begins to menstruate and her age when she  first gives birth is associated with an increased risk of  breast cancer, the results of a study published in the American  Journal of Epidemiology suggests.