Breast Cancer News

A year ago Sharon Brown got some bad news. The breast cancer drug she was receiving at The James was is short supply.

GE Healthcare, is working to help physicians potentially improve patient care throughout the breast cancer journey through one of the most comprehensive portfolios of technologies in the industry available today.

A single mother in Lee County who is battling stage 4 breast cancer is having one last fundraiser on June 4 in Cape Coral.

New research out of Denmark suggests that working overnight shifts can increase a woman's chances of getting breast cancer by 40 percent.A It suggested the risk of cancer grew with time, and that women who considered themselves morning people had an even greater risk.A Ellyn Matthews, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver, ... (more)

Penny Hearn, RN, FNP/WHNP, Nash Breast Health Navigator, and Beth Pearsall, mammography supervisor, accept a Susan G. Komen Grant on behalf of the Nash Breast Care Center.

Painkillers are good for headaches and other pains - but now scientists say they could also protect us from skin cancer.

The California State Senate has passed Senator Joe Simitian's bill that requires women to be informed about the dangers of dense breast tissue.

Women who are past menopause and healthy should not take hormone replacement therapy in hopes of warding off dementia, bone fractures or heart disease, says a new analysis by the government task force that weighs the risks and benefits of screening and other therapies aimed at preventing illness.

All Florida women who underwent surgical treatment for any type of breast cancer are invited to participate in a unique national online survey designed to explore the impact of breast cancer surgery on long term health, quality of life and satisfaction with care.

A surgery scar marks where doctors removed a breast cancer from Robert Kaitz of Severna Park, Md.

Arlington Heights, Ill. Biomaterials called "acellular dermal matrices" provide good outcomes, with low complication rates, when used for breast reconstruction after mastectomy for breast cancer, according to a study in the June issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery , the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons .

Australian scientists have discovered nine new genes associated with breast cancer, the total number to 40 genes, underscoring the complexity of the genetic disease, said WordScience.org . A study published recently in the journal Nature, is part of an international initiative to sequence the genomes of various types of cancer.

Nutrition and exercise are the keys to a long and healthy life, right? So just how important do you think nutrition and exercise are when you're faced with cancer? Cancer treatment, including surgery, radiation or chemotherapy, can modify your nutritional needs, change your appetite and harmfully affect the way you absorb, digest and use food for ... (more)

These processes mark the genome, such that a cancer's life history is encrypted in the somatic mutations present.

Women who work the night shift more than twice a week might be increasing their risk for breast cancer, Danish researchers find. Moreover, the risk appears to be cumulative and highest among women who describe themselves as "morning" people rather than "evening" people, the researchers say.

A night shift at a Royal Mail sorting office during the Christmas period. There are calls for Britain to follow Denmark in compensating women who have worked night shifts for long periods.

Updated evidence on hormone replacement therapy for menopausal women presents good news for those at risk of osteoporosis, but a mixed bag of results regarding breast cancer and other chronic diseases. While estrogen-only and estrogen-plus-progestin formulations reduce the risk of fractures, both increase the odds for stroke and other conditions including gallbladder disease, according to a new update of available evidence compiled for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent expert panel that is revising its guidelines.

An Austin mom's invention might have you saying just that. What's great about her idea is that it's changing the lives of women with breast cancer.

Women treated for Hodgkin's lymphoma have an elevated risk of developing second breast cancer compared with the general population.

Background To investigate the prognostic significance of disseminated tumor cells in bone marrow from non-metastatic breast cancer patients before and after surgery.