Tell a friend about breast cancer
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the Jamaica Cancer Society will be intensifying its efforts to increase the level of awareness among women about the disease.
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Breast cancer is the second-most common cancer among women, after skin cancer. It also is the second-most deadly, following lung cancer.
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NEW YORK  - In women with breast cancer,  the probability of dying from that malignancy, as opposed to  some other cause, can range from 3 percent to 85 percent,  depending on factors such as disease stage and patient age at  diagnosis, new research shows.
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Why more needs to be done to help provide care for women with secondary breast cancer.
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NEW YORK  - A woman's likelihood of surviving breast cancer is related to the survival rates among her first degree relatives with breast cancer, according to a new report.
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WhatÂs a friend for? These days, to chime in on consultations. And then thereÂs synchronized surgery.
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month is hard to miss. Its pink promotions are so pervasive during October that Halloween&#39;s orange-and-black motifs sometimes pale.
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When Tammy Brooks's doctors diagnosed her breast cancer last year, the single mother said she did what came naturally: She turned to her friends at the Virginia National Guard.
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Many GPs are confused about when to refer women with breast cancer concerns as urgent cases, a survey says.
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NEW YORK  - Women with breast cancer faced with treatment decisions are often not told by their surgeons about the possibility of breast reconstruction after a mastectomy, a study confirms. When these conversations do occur, many more women choose mastectomy, researchers found.
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Women who undergo mastectomy for breast cancer can have their breast rebuilt at the time of surgery without delaying chemotherapy, if this treatment is also needed, new research shows.
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Authors of a report released  this week encourage women who survive breast cancer to address  all of the modifiable risk factors they have for heart disease,  because breast cancer therapy can damage the heart.
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More Australian women are being struck down with breast cancer than ever before but a new survey shows one in ten cannot name any symptoms of the disease.
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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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Most doctors don't talk about breast reconstruction with women before cancer surgery, depriving them of key information that can sway their decision about whether to have the whole breast or just a lump removed, new research suggests.
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NEW YORK  - Recreational physical activity   in the year before a diagnosis of breast cancer seems to have a   positive influence on the prognosis of young women who are   overweight or obese when they are diagnosed, new research   suggests.
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This year, approximately 1,090 North Carolina families will experience the loss of a woman they love due to breast cancer. Some of these deaths may be avoided if the breast cancer had been detected earlier through regular examinations.