Whoever coined the phrase "walk for life” for fundraising and awareness-raising may not have realized how meaningful his/her efforts were. Many studies have established that regular exercise reduces the risk of developing breast cancer, but a recent study suggests that...
In a recent finding, women with breast cancer who walked for at least one hour a week were 20% less likely to...
Doctors are able to sharply shrink the size of benign breast tumors by using a small probe that freezes abnormal breast cells....
Researchers examined the mammograms of 252 women who later developed breast cancer and 252 women of the same age who did not...
Papillary lesions (benign growths in the milk- I producing ducts) account for 7% to 3% of lesions sampled by core needle biopsies....
A newer drug called anastrozole could A soon replace tamoxifen as the standard treatment for postmenopausal breast cancer patients whose cancer is...
Breast cancer screening and treatment for seniors should be the same as that for younger women. Breast cancer is most commonly diagnosed...
Nearly 20,000 women in a recent study took either tamoxifen, the only drug currently approved to reduce breast cancer incidence in...
Over the past 25 years, advances in gynecologic surgery have caused a steady decline in the number of hysterectomies (removal of the...
Menopausal women are susceptible to yeast infections because of the changes in their hormones. The use of natural estrogen (estrio/) inserted vaginally...
Nearly 34 million American women are between the ages of 40 and 54, according to the US Census Bureau. Most are in...
Postmenopausal women have a high prevalence of urinary incontinence. Recent finding: Sixty percent of postmenopausal women experience one or more episodes of...