Then millions of US women threw out their prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in 2002, the rates of breast cancer started dropping almost immediately, according to US researchers. Their findings coincided with a report from the UK that showed women who...
Scientists have developed a breast cancer vaccine that stimulates a powerful immune system response to tumor cells. In mice, the "synthetic...
Most women know to tell their doctors about any new breast lumps. But a lump is not the only potential warning sign...
Women with early-stage breast cancer may safely wait up to 12 weeks after cancer surgery before they begin chemotherapy, a new study...
A shorter course of external beam radiation therapy for early stage breast cancer is both safe and effective, new research shows. Background...
Nearly one-quarter of breast cancer patients stop taking the drug tamoxifen within the first year of a standard fiveyear regimen, a new...
Scientists at the National Cancer Institute report that adding a second drug molecule to tamoxifen, the breast cancer drug used successfully for...
Men who have breast cancer have a significantly increased risk for a second cancer, malignant melanoma and stomach cancer, according to the...
US regulators approved a new drug that in clinical trials delayed breast cancer progression in women no longer responding to trastuzumab (Herceptin)...
The abortion pill (RU486 or mifepristone) might ward off breast cancer in women at high risk for the disease. New research found...
By reducing the amount of fat in their diet, postmenopausal women who've been treated for early stage breast cancer may...
Steaks, hamburgers and other red meat could raise younger women's risk for an U estrogen-linked form of breast cancer, researchers...