Breast Cancer News

Exercise might help women beat breast cancer. Researchers found it can ease the achy joints and muscle pain that lead many patients to quit taking medicines that treat the disease and lower the risk of a recurrence.

We may soon be able to obtain easy and early diagnoses of diseases by smell. This week researchers found one odour-sniffing machine was as good as a mammogram at detecting breast cancer - and many other devices capable of spotting other diseases may be on the way.

Distressed breast cancer patients are furious to discover insurers will pay only a fraction of breast reconstruction costs because the procedure is considered non-essential Instead, the single mother of two has been "devastated" by an $11,500 debt she can't pay, money her insurance company refuses to refund for her breast reconstruction.

VuCOMP, Inc. announced today that it has installed both of its mammography image analysis products -- M-Vu Breast Density and M-Vu CAD -- throughout Baptist Health imaging centers in Jacksonville, Florida.

While White women are more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, Black women are more likely to die from it, according to a new report which found large and growing disparities in breast cancer mortality rates in the U.S. and many of its largest cities over the last two decades.

After getting diagnosed with breast cancer last fall - a devastating surprise, which came as the result of an on-air mammogram - ABC news correspondent Amy Robach has been juggling work, family, appearances and her grueling treatments.

Breast cancer patients with high levels of vitamin D in their blood may be more likely to survive the disease compared to women lacking the nutrient, a new study reports.

The 49-year-old mum from Bearsden will join a team of dancers on Buchanan Street today to perform Race for Life's Cancer Slam.

By Tracy Simons, Silver Cross Hospital According to the American Cancer Society, in 2013 an estimated 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer were diagnosed among women, as well as an estimated 62,570 new cases of carcinoma in situ will be diagnosed this year.

Erzen, 35, said she found a lump in her breast while she was pregnant. She said her doctors told her not to worry about because it was probably nothing.

Sara Erzen, 35, was pregnant with her third child when she found a lump in her breast.

In these cases, , MD of Beverly Hills Physicians believes that breast cancer patients should meet with a plastic surgeon while discussing treatment with their oncologist.

Before Deborah Cohan settled into her second round of chemotherapy, she dunked her brown ringlets in water and was fitted with a tight, silicone and neoprene cap that would cool her head to just above freezing.

The study released by the Avon Foundation for Women analyzed the 50 most populous cities in the U.S. from 1990 to 2009, looking at breast cancer mortality rates between non-Hispanic black and non-Hispanic white women.

The comedian was due to perform his world tour show at the Warwick Arts Centre in Coventry on Thursday and to a sold-out crowd at the Assembly Rooms in Derby tonight , but pulled out of both.

Researchers have attempted to trace how bisphenol-A may promote breast cancer tumor growth with help from a molecule called RNA HOTAIR.

The Pink Pumpkin Patch Foundation, a Colorado nonprofit, has awarded a $30,000 breast cancer research grant to Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

A method called molecular subtyping can help doctors better determine which of their breast cancer patients are at high risk of getting breast cancer again, a new study led by the University of South Florida reports.

A YOUNG breast cancer survivor is the face of a new campaign in support of the Wythenshawe Hospital-based Genesis Breast Cancer Prevention.

Read to your baby, sing and play games. But don't waste money on programs that claim to teach infants to read, a new study suggests.