Huge breast cancer survey starts
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Breast cancer experts are recruiting the help of 100,000 UK women to pinpoint the causes of the deadly disease.
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For 20 years October has been recognized as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Since October 1984, breast cancer has been on the rise and is the most common cancer in women, according
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Women at the highest levels of hereditary risk for breast cancer should be offered magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) breast screening, a new study recommends.
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A new national clinical trial will investigate genetic and environmental causes of breast cancer by enrolling 50,000 sisters of women already diagnosed with the disease.
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MONDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Women who were larger than average at birth have a sharply higher rate of breast cancer before age 50, a study by British and Swedish researchers suggests.
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A new national study will investigate genetic and environmental causes of breast cancer by enrolling 50,000 sisters of women already diagnosed with the disease.
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Women with breast cancer were offered new hope yesterday by research hailed as the biggest advance in 30 years. The findings mark a watershed in breast cancer care and are expected to challenge
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Women with a high genetic risk of breast cancer run a better chance of having it detected with magnetic resonance imaging than with mammography or other methods.
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The majority of women in the United States are getting their first screening mammogram for breast cancer at age 40, as recommended by health experts, a new study finds.
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Figures reveal that more women than ever before in Scotland are being screened for breast cancer.
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Thousands of women run through London to raise funds to research breast cancer.
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual national health campaign organised by all the major breast cancer and cancer charities.
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More women with breast cancer are choosing to have their healthy breast surgically removed along with their affected breast.
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Researchers at Indiana University, Ohio State University and the University of Missouri have begun a five-year, $8 million project that will help doctors better understand the damage caused by breast and ovarian cancers.
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This year, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts will report 5,170 new cases of breast cancer and more than 960 female breast cancer deaths, according to the American Cancer Society.
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will announce the largest hospital fund-raising campaign in New England history today, hoping to raise $1 billion to turn the rapidly growing scientific understanding of cancer into better treatments for cancer patients.
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A new study is the first to link weight gain to specific types of breast cancer