Treatment with trastuzumab prolonged survival among women with HER2-positive early breast cancer, but the benefits were accompanied by significant risks of cardiotoxicity, a systematic review found.

In eight clinical…

Caring for a wife with breast cancer can have a measurable negative effect on men’s health, even years after the cancer diagnosis and completion of treatment, according…

In a new study, the impressions of breast cancer patients about the quality of care they received often differed from medical definitions of quality - in part because the…

When women at high risk of breast cancer viewed a customized web-based decision guide about prevention options, they were more likely to make a choice about prevention…

Saturday April 14, 2012 (foodconsumer.org) - Eating too much high calorie density (high glycemic index) carbohydrates such as table sugar or high fructose corn syrup, which are commonly…

South San Francisco’s Genentech has teamed up with personal genetics company 23andMe for a new kind of study - one that doesn’t require patients to find a clinical trial center…

Each year, thousands of Americans die from breast cancer, but there are also thousands who survive the battle.

On Saturday morning in downtown Jackson, hundreds laced up their tennis shoes to…

Twenty three-year-old Jaipur girl, Rozlyn Khan, was a nobody before she uploaded her topless pictures online, and later followed it up with a video where she displayed six self-examination steps to…

An FDA advisory panel unanimously voted in favor of an automated ultrasound device for breast cancer screening after a negative mammogram in women with dense breasts.

But in Wednesday’s…

Women who have early breast tumors surgically removed may often go through repeat mammograms and invasive procedures for years afterward, a new study finds.

The study focused on so-called…

Biomarkers which could help to predict resistance to chemotherapy in breast cancer patients have been identified by researchers from the University of Hull, UK.

The researchers found a family…

A new supplement in the journal Cancer outlines an innovative model to address a wide range of physical issues faced by women with breast cancer and offers hope for improved…

Researchers from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) have shown that breast cancer cells that metastasize to the lung express a…

Genetic variation in the vitamin D pathway might be part of the reason African-American women tend to have more aggressive breast cancer than those of European ancestry,…

The Breast Cancer Genome Guided Therapy Study (BEAUTY Project) will help physicians tailor chemotherapy to breast cancer patients based on their individual genomes and the genomes of their tumors.…

A study by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention investigators reveals that breast cancer survivors who eat more cruciferous vegetables may have improved survival.

The study of…

Certain vegetables could help improve survival rates for breast cancer patients.

Green vegetables like broccoli, kale, cabbage and brussels sprouts have been shown to reduce the risk of…

Women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) who opt to preserve the affected breast face continued diagnostic and invasive procedures potentially for years after surgery, researchers found.

Over 10 years, more than…

More than half of women in the U.S. who get annual mammograms will have at least one false-positive reading after 10 years of screening, and now new research suggests that these…

False-positive mammograms could be an indicator of underlying pathology that could result in breast cancer, according to a study published April 5 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) have high rates of diagnostic and invasive breast procedures after treatment with breast-conserving surgery (BCS) according to a study published…

One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during her lifetime. The earlier cancer is detected, the better the chance of successful treatment and long-term survival.…

The breast cancer is more deadly to black women than to whites, a new study found.

This finding was published online Monday on the “Journal of Clinical Oncology” in the United…

While the prevalence of breast cancer among women in Asia is lower than it is in much of the world, those who are hit by it in China tend to…

Breast cancer rates in Shanghai have increased by almost a third since the 1970s, health officials said ahead of International Women’s Day today.

This is due to a…