Breast Cancer News

In her tenth year of hosting fundraising strawberry teas, she is aiming to hit the A 10,000 mark for a breast cancer charity.

Dear EarthTalk: A recent study showed that Bisphenol A was hardly the human health risk researchers once believed it to be.

Breast cancer is characterized by the uncontrolled growth of cancerous cells in the breast tissue.

A woman undergoing chemotherapy says she felt humiliated after being turned away from a Hamilton casino because she didn't have a doctor's note saying she needed to wear a hat.

If you've been in downtown Columbia for long periods of time during the week, then you've likely seen Janie Young and her service dog, Zuma, traveling through town.

While almost everyone agrees that the American health system was not perfect - high quality, but some could not afford it - the solution may not have been more government spending, since government was not spending money all that wisely well before 2009.

DOLLY DANCING: Breast Cancer survivors, Mp Jenny Chapman along with dancers dress as Dolly Parton to protest the decision to transfer the breast cancer support group out of the area.

It created a special edition of its number one selling Oil Sheen Hair Spray and donated R1 of every can sold to PinkDrive.

The Government of Canada and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation are investing $5.7 million in support of a national research team investigating breast cancer in young women.

A preliminary study at Massachusetts General Hospital found that specially developed microchips may be able to detect certain types of breast cancer cells in a patient's bloodstream.

A Bradford on Avon fundraising team started pedalling their way towards raising A 9,000 for a woman's cancer challenge at Sainsbury's this weekend.

The Cancer Science Institute of Singapore announced that it has started the first University-based Breast Cancer Cell Bank in the country with the aim of fostering greater understanding of the disease and its potential treatments.

General session speakers include: Virginia Borges , MD, MMSc, director, Cancer Center; Lu Ann Cahn , reporter, WCAU-TV, cancer survivor and author of the inspirational memoir, I Dare Me ; Clifford A. Hudis , MD; Chief, Breast Cancer Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Rita Nanda , MD, Associate Director, Breast Medical ... (more)

Using an innovative tool that captures heretofore hidden ways that cells are regulated, scientists at Rockefeller University have identified a protein that makes breast cancer cells more likely to metastasize.

On behalf of the Anne M. Wolf Foundation board, I thank the Wayne County community for their generous support of the fourth annual Anne's Army 5K: Race to Battle Breast Cancer held June 21 on the OARDC campus.

Friends of Janie Young are hoping to raise enough money to get her a new service dog as she fights cancer.

The drug exemestane worked slightly better than the drug tamoxifen at preventing a recurrence of breast cancer in certain premenopausal women, according to a new study.

An expectant mother is examined by a midwife during a home visit in Free Union, Va, in November 2005.

Considered the most common cause of female infertility, polycystic ovary syndrome affects between five to 10 percent of women at reproductive age.

Delegate Nick Rush and his wife, Jennifer, are partnering with the owner of Boot Camp Challenge-New River Valley to announce their third annual fundraising initiative to support breast cancer research.