A new study has found that African-American women experience the longest diagnostic, treatment and clinical delay of breast cancer treatment. This helps explain why African-American women…

A diagnosis of breast cancer has taken on a new meaning in the past 10 years, as research has produced a host of new therapies and detection techniques, significantly…

External-beam radiation therapy for early-stage breast cancer can be delivered safely and in a shorter course that eliminates as much as two weeks from conventional treatment, finds a Fox Chase…

External-beam radiation therapy for early-stage breast cancer can be delivered safely and in a shorter course that eliminates as much as two weeks from conventional treatment, finds a…

The daughters of rats that feast on whole wheat during pregnancy are less likely to develop breast cancer, a new study shows.

Based on the findings, “it might…

Women testing negative for the two inherited breast cancer genes are still at increased risk of developing the disease, suggests research published ahead of print…

A meta-analysis published in the October issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings indicts oral contraceptives as putting premenopausal women at significantly increased risk for breast cancer, especially women…

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have for the first time described how multiple copies of a gene are responsible for metastases in early-stage breast cancer and poor prognosis…

A new study investigating the effects of chemotherapy on cognitive function in mice has confirmed what many cancer patients receiving treatment have often complained about…

African-American women with breast cancer were more likely to have larger, later-stage tumors that were more difficult to treat and also had lower survival rates than Hispanic…

While some breast cancer survivors could benefit from adding aromatase inhibitors to the standard five years of tamoxifen, a new study shows the additional…

A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides evidence that excess abdominal fat can affect breast cancer survival.

The researchers followed 1,254 women ages…

Black women living in Chicago are more likely to die from breast cancer than white women in the city, according to a study…

Vitamin D may help curb breast cancer progression, suggests a small study published ahead of print in the Journal of Clinical Pathology.

The authors reach their conclusion from a…

Differences in estrogen levels may partially explain the ethnic disparities in breast cancer rates among U.S. women, new research suggests.

In a study of more than 700 postmenopausal women,…

Ovarian cysts do not increase the risk of breast cancer, according to the results of a review study. In fact, such cysts were associated with a 30-percent decreased risk…

Researchers have known that a woman’s natural hormone levels can affect her risk of developing breast cancer. A new study from the University of Southern…

A new breast cancer ‘wonder drug’ could be available to British women within a matter of months.

The drug Tykerb taken once a day, at home,…

Moderate but regular exercise can help women avoid some of the side-effects of radiation treatment for breast cancer, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

Researchers studied 20 women with breast cancer,…

Adding Herceptin (trastuzumab) to hormonal therapy increases significantly the length of time certain women with advanced breast cancer live without their disease progressing, researchers said on Monday.

Postmenopausal women whose breast…

Powerful chemotherapy drugs and estrogen-blocking hormone treatments are highly effective in treating breast cancer. But in the process they may be putting women at risk of another disease: osteoporosis.

Eli Lilly’s Evista, which is used to prevent and treat osteoporosis, curbs the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women regardless of whether they have risk factors for breast cancer or…

One in seven women will develop breast cancer in her life. But how much do most women really know about this disease?

Breast cancer specialists from the University of Michigan Comprehensive…

Breast cancer incidence is lower for Latinas than for non-Latina white women, but Latinas diagnosed with the disease are more likely to die than white women, according to a report…

In the U.S., a novel technology soon may be available to detect the spread, or metastasis, of breast cancer earlier than now possible, according to research presented at the…