Breast cancer decline attributed to drop in HRT
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NEW YORK  - Invasive breast cancer rates have fallen since the substantial decline in postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) occurred, even after a decline in breast cancer screening rates, according to findings published in the 5th Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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A drop in breast cancer cases may due to women eschewing Hormone Replacement Therapy, a study suggests.
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About a quarter of U.S. women who stopped taking hormone replacement therapy after it was found to raise the risk of heart disease and some cancers have gone back on it, according to a new study.
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Overweight and obese women have a lower risk of breast cancer prior to menopause, researchers said on Monday in a finding they said both puzzles them and contradicts conventional wisdom.
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Tiny differences in genes linked to the hormone estrogen can strongly influence a woman's risk of developing breast cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - Women in their 40s, who tend to  have relatively dense breast tissue, are more likely to have a  breast tumor missed on a screening mammogram than are older  women, new study findings suggest.
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When added to conventional hormone replacement therapy (HRT), testosterone may reduce the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women, results of a small study suggest.
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A class of hormone-blocking drugs was more effective in preventing breast cancer recurrence in women past menopause than was a medication now prescribed by many doctors.
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A new study is the first to link weight gain to specific types of breast cancer
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Despite the recent advancements in breast cancer detection and research, the disease remains the second leading cause of death among women ages 40 to 55 in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS).
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TUESDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthDay News) -- A woman's risk for breast cancer as she grows older appears strongly linked to the natural process of lobular regression, Mayo Clinic researchers have concluded.
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FRIDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDayNews) -- A mammogram may be less effective if a woman is on hormone replacement therapy (HRT), a new British study finds.
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NEW YORK  - Hair from women with breast cancer can be distinguished from hair obtained from women without the disease, researchers in Australia report.
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As if there weren&#39;t enough reasons to reconsider hormone replacement therapy, a new study highlights yet another negative health effect of taking estrogen plus progestin to combat the symptoms of menopause.
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Breast cancer is less likely to  return in patients who stick to a low-fat diet, according to a  study released on Saturday.
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Women who put on a lot of weight at any stage of adulthood increase their risk of breast cancer, likely because the hormone estrogen accumulates in the acquired fat and promotes tumors, researchers said on Monday.
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SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 16 -- The first experiment to show that low-fat diets could help prevent a return of breast cancer now reveals, after a follow-up, that the benefit is almost exclusively for women whose tumor growth was not driven by hormones.