More than 200,000 women receive a diagnosis of breast cancer every year, according to statistics from the American Cancer Society (ACS). The ACS estimates that a woman's lifetime risk of developing invasive breast cancer is one in seven....
Combination of chemotherapy drugs can increase the five-year survival rate of women who have node-positive breast cancer by approximately 7%, according to...
Evidence is mounting that targeted therapies-drug treatments that attack tumors without harming healthy tissue-work well against breast cancer. The Trials One drug...
Breast cancer survivors are at a decreased risk for a heart attack. New study: Women age 67 or older who survived Stage...
The breast cancer drug tamoxifen lowers a woman's risk of heart attack, a new study suggests. The Study Earlier studies...
Concerns about side effects discourage many women at high risk for breast cancer from taking tamoxifen, according to a study. The use...
A newer drug called anastrozole could soon replace tamoxifen as the standard treatment for postmenopausal breast cancer patients whose cancer is fueled...
There's nothing funny about an asthma attack. But a recent study suggests that laughter can be a frequent asthma trigger....
One in five adults who have asthma is at risk for having a life-threatening reaction to aspirin, according to the results of...
The bacterium S. pneumoniae is responsible for more than 5 million pneumococcal infections in the United States each year, including ear infections,...
People who have asthma face twice the risk of contracting invasive pneumococcal disease than those who do not have the chronic lung...
Obese people may be misdiagnosed with asthma. Extra weight makes respiratory muscles work less efficiently, producing symptoms that resemble those of asthma-reduced...