Sisters of cancer victims recruited
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In the largest study of its kind, federal researchers will try to recruit 50,000 sisters of women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer to try
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More than 100 young women who expressed interest in joining the military in the past year were preyed upon sexually by their recruiters. Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and groped en route to entrance exams.
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Image Reborn Foundation is hosting its seventh annual gala to celebrate the lives of women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer and to raise money for the free retreats the foundation hosts for those women.
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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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Seventeen-year-old Shane Rich of Kensington in Cape Town was diagnosed with leukaemia four months ago. On Monday, his elder sister Jane lay patiently in hospital for seven hours as her stem cells were harvested in an attempt to save Shane&#39;s life.
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DISTANT relatives of cancer victims have a higher than average chance of suffering the disease themselves, researchers say. Scientists looked at the family tree of about 32,000 patients
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Proportion of breast cancer patients who undergo unnecessary double mastectomies increases.
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A new genetic test could one day spare many women diagnosed with breast cancer from the rigors of chemotherapy, a new study says. But at least one cancer expert says more
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A deadly gene's path can hide in a family tree when a woman has few aunts and older sisters, making it appear that her breast cancer struck out of nowhere when it really came from Dad.
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Figures reveal that more women than ever before in Scotland are being screened for breast cancer.
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Tens of thousands of women are being urged to take part in a 50-year study designed to better understand the causes of breast cancer - a disease which kills around 13,000 women every year.
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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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Scientists in Iceland find that even distant relatives of cancer victims have a higher than average chance of suffering the disease themselves.
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South Bend, IN - A local effort to raise awareness in the fight against breast cancer has gained a lot of support. Radio station U-93 has been collecting bras from listeners during breast cancer awareness month.
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In an effort to find new ways to prevent breast cancer, two British cancer organizations called for the help of 100,000 volunteers to participate in a lifelong breast cancer study.
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More than 3,300 cancer patients, survivors, friends and relatives fanned out across Capitol Hill on Wednesday to lobby Congress for more money for cancer research and detection.
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Emma Jane Kirby travels to Epinal in eastern France to meet people who are suffering from the effects of too much radiation caused by their cancer treatment.