Breast Cancer News

Just as no two people possess the same genetic makeup, a recent study has shown that no two single tumor cells in breast cancer patients have an identical genome.

Exposure to light at night suppresses levels of the hormone melatonin. New research is looking into the link between low levels of melatonin and resistance to tamoxifen, a common breast cancer drug.

Those who work with young adults say the reality of cancer is awful at any age, but in the very young it can be heartbreaking.

Julie Szasz with her daughter Eva at their home in St-Lazare. Szasz was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010 that spread to her bones, but is in remission now.

Having a baby. Being diagnosed with cancer. Two life-changing events. A doctor at Jennie Edmundson hospital found herself dealing with both - at the same time.

New help for breast cancer patients struggling with difficult side effects caused by drugs taken to prevent a recurrence.

The Battle Creek Coyotes will be raising money for our beneficiary, Crissy Castellanos who is battling cancer.

David and Matthew Toye will be taking on the Prudential Ride 100, a 100-mile cycle challenge through London and Surrey, on Sunday, August 10. Mr Toye, of Upper Welland is 72, and his son Matthew, who now lives in Guildford with his family, is 42 , giving them a combined age of 114.

Light at night has already been widely linked to poorer sleep quality , but now even dim light is being shown to interfere with a breast cancer drug's ability to do its job.

Acupuncture can bring significant improvements in fatigue, anxiety and depression in as little as eight weeks for early stage breast cancer patients.

One in two. That's about how many women today have dense tissue in their breasts.

Patients with luminal HER2-negative tumours have a favourable prognosis. However, there is a subpopulation in which poorer outcomes are obtained with endocrine therapy alone.

The news that Intrabeam, the revolutionary one dose, one time treatment for early-stage breast cancer is being made available to women in the UK by Britain's national health service has been welcomed by New Zealand breast cancer organisations.

No one expects to get cancer. No one expects to get cancer when they are 41 and relatively healthy.

There should be subsidized mass breast cancer screening in light of new, less painful 3D mammography that gives lower false- positives, radiologists say.

Years ago, journalists who had breast cancer fought with words to inform other women with breast cancer that, in many cases, they didn't need a mastectomy.

The Upstate Cancer Center is launching a new program designed to increase the number of mammogram cancer screenings among African-American women.

The grant will fund a two-year project to study the mechanisms behind hereditary breast cancer related to the BRCA1 gene.

A Sheffield cancer expert has given a cautious welcome to a new breast cancer treatment which promises to replace long radiotherapy sessions with a single, targeted shot.

Western medicine is so aggressive and cut-throat that even the idea of prevention has been skewed to the point of chopping off and cutting out body parts for "preventing" cancer that isn't even there.