Breast cancer death rate drops more: report
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The death rate from breast cancer continues to drop steadily by about 2 percent a year, but black women are not seeing the same benefits as whites, the American Cancer Society said on Tuesday.
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U.S. cancer deaths rose by more than 5,000 in 2005, a somewhat disappointing reversal of a two-year downward trend, the American Cancer Society reported
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Rates of the most common form of breast cancer dropped from August 2002 to December 2003, researchers reported.
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NEW YORK  - The number of breast cancer surgeries that a hospital performs seems to be associated with the likelihood of subsequently dying from breast cancer, Milwaukee-based researchers have found.
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People who are depressed about their  cancer are no more likely to die than people who keep a  positive outlook, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - Breast cancer survivors are 37 percent more likely to commit suicide than other women, and the elevated risk persists for at least 25 years after diagnosis, according to a report in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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Women who develop breast cancer because they carry one of three defective genes are no less likely to survive over the long term than other breast cancer patients, Canadian and Israeli researchers said on Wednesday.
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More Americans than ever before are  surviving cancer and rates in general are falling, mostly  because fewer people are smoking, the American Cancer Society  reported on Wednesday.
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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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Hormone replacement therapy, breast surgery and a low body weight all make it harder to detect breast cancer, scientists have discovered.
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The five-year survival rate for localized breast cancer is 97 percent if it&#39;s caught quickly. But as with almost all cancers, early detection is the key to surviving the disease.
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Postmenopausal women with early breast cancer who take tamoxifen for five years appear to have a 30 percent lower risk of dying from coronary heart disease than
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Patient deaths from experimental cancer drugs during initial human studies declined dramatically from 1991 to 2002, suggesting that better oversight and less-toxic medicines have made cancer research safer, a study found.
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Black women with early-stage breast  cancer have lower survival rates than their white counterparts  even after taking into account variables such as tumor size and  socioeconomic differences, researchers said.
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eople who survive cancer appear to get worse care than the general population when it comes to other diseases, a study released last week concluded.
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Screening women under 50 years old for breast cancer does not significantly reduce deaths from the disease, British researchers said on Friday.
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Screening women under 50 years old for  breast cancer does not significantly reduce deaths from the  disease, British researchers said on Friday.