Women who survive a bout with breast cancer are at increased risk of developing cancers of the lung, stomach, and colon, among several others, new research suggests.

The elevated risk…

The results of studies “with thorough passive smoking exposure assessment” indicate that passive smoking raises the risk of breast cancer, especially in premenopausal women, to a similar degree as active…

“The treatment of breast cancer when the patient is pregnant does not increase the risk of congenital anomalies”, assures Dr. Guillermo Lopez, director of the Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at…

A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and colleagues shows that a drug originally used to treat breast cancer may help combat the severe…

Encouraging response rates have been achieved in women with advanced breast cancer treated with the investigational drug lapatinib, according to a recently published review.

The early results shown by…

Contrary to the findings in rodent studies, a class of drugs commonly used to treat depression, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) that include drugs such as Prozac, do not appear to…

Early detection through screening mammography and improved adjuvant treatment have contributed almost equally to the substantial decrease in breast cancer death rates over…

Genetic testing for breast cancer susceptibility genes appears to be as potentially beneficial for high-risk African-American women as it is for high-risk white women.

The rate of deleterious mutations in…