Hormone fears rise with cancer news
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This week's news that a big drop in breast cancer cases might be due to millions of women going off menopause hormones may lead even more of them to abandon the pills.
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Mammograms are not as effective at detecting potentially life-threatening breast cancers in thin women, those taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and those who have had previous breast surgery as they are in other women, scientists reveal today.
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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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For some time now, taking hormone replacement therapy has been almost synonymous with embracing the dark forces of evil. Scientific studies showing that HRT could be linked to increased risk
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Wyeth on Wednesday faced   accusations that one of its hormone replacement therapy (HRT)   drugs caused breast cancer in a 67-year-old woman as one of the   thousands of trials the drug maker is facing over the treatment   got underway.
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The latest scientific news is about fighting aging, heart disease, and cancer.
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For women who have struggled with the symptoms of menopause but are fearful of taking risky hormone pills, there is at last a bit of hope.
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Hormone therapy used to treat   prostate cancer that has already spread may save patients from   cancer but raise the risk of diabetes and heart disease, U.S.   researchers reported on Tuesday.
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Death rates from cancer are continuing to decline but scientists have uncovered a surprising jump in cases of thyroid cancer.
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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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For the first time, cancer experts are advising women of certain symptoms that might alert them to ovarian cancer, a disease that is hard to spot early and one of the deadliest cancers.
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Many young women diagnosed with breast cancer overestimate their risk of becoming infertile while undergoing treatment, a new study shows.
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College researchers are studying whether electric light changes hormone levels in women and makes breast cancer more prevalent in developed countries.
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Fear of what the symptoms of prostate cancer may mean stops men seeking medical help, a study suggests.
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Women who feel chronically  stressed may have a lower risk of developing uterine cancer  than their less harried peers, researchers have found.
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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.
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Hormone replacement therapy, breast surgery and a low body weight all make it harder to detect breast cancer, scientists have discovered.