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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…

A woman’s height and body mass index (BMI) may significantly influence her ovarian cancer risk, a large meta-analysis found.

For each 5-cm increase in height, the adjusted relative risk for…

Fewer cycles of an intensive chemotherapy regimen for advanced Hodgkin’s lymphoma improves outcomes and reduces toxicity, researchers found.

Treatment failure over 5 years actually occurred less often with six cycles 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…

Patients with advanced and metastatic cancers had “unexpected 5-year survival” when treated with an inexpensive maintenance immunotherapy that boosted levels of natural killer cells, investigators reported here.

Patients with a…

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…

The GAVI international vaccines group is moving towards a price deal with drug makers which could mean the supply of millions of doses of cut-price cervical cancer vaccines to…

Henry Ford Hospital dermatology researchers are urging caution about using claims data for identifying nonmelanoma skin cancer, suggesting that the commonly used method, which previously had not been…

Nanotechnology offers powerful new possibilities for targeted cancer therapies, but the design challenges are many. Northwestern University scientists now are the first to develop a simple but specialized nanoparticle that can deliver…

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.…

Men experience a marked drop in their testosterone levels when taking a targeted therapy to control a specific type of lung cancer. That’s according to a University of…

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…

–Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a very aggressive, often misunderstood type of cancer that is diagnosed more frequently in younger women compared with other types…

An international team of scientists, including four at Simon Fraser University, has made a discovery that will change the way the most deadly form of breast cancer is treated.

Adding an ultrasound to annual mammograms for women at higher-than-average breast cancer risk helps catch more early-stage tumors - but also ups the chance that healthy women will get follow-up…

In a move that threatens to further inflame concerns about the rationing of medical care, the nation’s leading association of cancer physicians issued a list on Wednesday of…

The dietary supplement gamma-linoleic acid can inhibit the growth of a subset of pancreatic cancer cells and selectively promote cancer cell death in mice, a Mayo Clinic…

A study presented today by Mayo Clinic researchers at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2012 in Chicago identified two genes that…

The link between hormone therapy (HT) for menopausal women and breast cancer risk has been researched extensively, and now a new study has found any type of hormone…

A new report suggests that when a breast cancer screening program was rolled out in Norway, up to 10 women were diagnosed and treated for cancer unnecessarily for every breast cancer…