Black Women Hit by Drug-Resistant Breast Cancer
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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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A new type of breast cancer drug is clearly superior to the old standard, tamoxifen, in many women and should now be the first drug used
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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  - 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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A new study gives a possible explanation for why breast cancer is more deadly in black women: they are more likely to have tumors that do not respond to the hormone-based treatments that help many others with the disease.
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More young women are learning early that they are genetically prone to breast cancer, setting off a new type of family drama.
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A new drug may give older women with early stages of breast cancer a better chance of beating the disease and stopping it returning and spreading.
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NEW YORK  - More African-American women are being screened for breast cancer than in years past, but they're still less likely to have the disease caught early compared with white women, a new study shows.
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A population-based study of  black and white American women with and without breast cancer  found that relatively few were carriers of mutations in BRCA1  or BRCA2 genes. Women who carry BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations  are more susceptible to developing breast and ovarian cancer.
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A new national clinical trial will probe genetic and environmental causes of breast cancer by studying 50,000 sisters of women already diagnosed with the disease that is the second-leading cancer killer of women.
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TORONTO - A standard treatment used to prevent the recurrence of breast cancer should be replaced by a newer drug, according to a study released Wednesday.
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One out of every seven women will become a victim of breast cancer, but more than half of those who get the disease, beat it. On Friday, as part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a number of East Tennessee women are celebrating their survival.
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If your sister has breast cancer, there&#39;s a new way you can help fight for a cure. The National Institutes of Health is looking for 50,000 sisters of breast cancer patients for a study that will look at genetic
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Researchers say they have found a way to reverse resistance to one of the most effective anti-cancer drugs.
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Older women with early breast cancer should be put on a different drug to the current gold standard, say experts.
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In women who've been treated for breast cancer, use of the drug tamoxifen can help prevent recurrence of the disease. Now, new research indicates that the drug works equally well in black and white women.
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U.S. blacks continue to get inferior cancer treatment compared to whites, researchers said on Monday in a study showing that disparities first documented in the early 1990s persist despite efforts to erase them.