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• U.S. Breast Cancer Rates No Longer Declining

The decline in U.S. breast cancer rates seen in 2002 and 2003 in white women has not continued, according to a new report that tracks the numbers from 2003 through 2007....

• Breast Cancer Death Rates Decline

Fewer women are dying from breast cancer today than ever before, and this is largely due to advances in screening and treatment. Poorer women, however, are seeing a slower and later decline in their risk of dying from breast cancer in part because they don’t have as much access to these life-saving advances.Fewer women are dying from breast cancer today than ever before, and this is largely...

• From Bad to Better: U.S. Cancer Rates Continue to Drop

Cancer death rates for men and women in the U.S. kept dropping through 2008, continuing a nearly 20-year-long trend....

• From Bad to Better: U.S. Cancer Rates Continue to Drop

Cancer death rates for men and women in the U.S. kept dropping through 2008, continuing a nearly 20-year-long trend....

• Low Vitamin D Linked to Breast Cancer

African-American women with low vitamin D levels have a greater likelihood of developing aggressive breast cancer than white women, a new study says....

• Mammograms Cut Risk of Breast Cancer Death

Three-fourths of deaths due to breast cancer occur among women who do not undergo regular screening mammograms, a large study shows....

• Exercise Fights Breast Cancer

Exercise reduces the risk of post-menopausal African-American women of developing breast cancer, new research indicates....

• Carriers of Breast Cancer Gene at Risk of Second Cancer

Women who have been successfully treated for cancer in one breast and who carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 cancer gene are at increased risk for developing cancer in their other breast....

• Surgery Improves Late-Stage Breast Cancer

Women whose breast cancer is diagnosed late, when it has already spread to other parts of the body, live about a year and a half longer if their breast tumor is surgically removed, researchers report....

• Four Breast Cancer Survivor Stories

Four women under age 40 reveal how they found and fought breast cancer and lived to tell the tale....

• Breast-Conserving Therapy Gets Boost for Younger Women

Younger women with early breast cancer who have breast-conserving surgery do just as well as those who undergo mastectomy, two new studies suggest....

• Breast-Conserving Therapy Gets Boost for Younger Women

Younger women with early breast cancer who have breast-conserving surgery do just as well as those who undergo mastectomy, two new studies suggest....

• Drop in Mammograms Due to Hormone Therapy Fears

An unprecedented decline in the number of women getting mammograms was due to women going off hormone therapy and thus having less contact with a doctor who urged regular breast cancer screening....

• Cancer Death Rates Are Dropping in U.S.

Death rates for cancer are continuing a slow but steady decline in the U.S., due mainly to improved efforts at early detection, better treatments, and smoking cessation, the American Cancer Society says in a new report....

• Mammograms May Halve Breast Cancer Deaths

Despite the controversies over mammograms, the bottom line is they still save lives in women ages 50 to 75. A new Dutch study shows the scan reduced the risk of death from breast cancer in this age group by almost half....

• Herceptin: Long-Term Benefits for Breast Cancer

High-risk breast cancer patients continue to derive benefits from the drug Herceptin even four years after stopping treatment, but questions remain about the biologic therapy’s safety when given with chemotherapy....

• Weight Gain After Breast Cancer May Be Risky

Gaining large amounts of weight in the two years after a breast cancer diagnosis may increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer recurrence and death, a new study shows....

• Tamoxifen Gives 15-Year Breast Cancer Protection

Five-year tamoxifen treatment -- with or without chemotherapy -- cuts a woman's 15-year risk of breast-cancer death by about a third, long-term data show....

• Breast Cancer Gene Test, Preventive Surgery Save Women’s Lives

Women who carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 cancer genes cut their death risk by getting preventive surgery to remove their ovaries and fallopian tubes. Mastectomy further reduces their cancer risk....

• Breast Milk May Hold Clues to Breast Cancer Risk

Preliminary findings from an ongoing study suggest that cells found in breast milk may identify women who might go on to develop breast cancer....

• Cancer Death Rate Continues to Fall

New cancer cases and the cancer death rate continue to fall in the U.S., driven largely by declines in lung, prostate, and colorectal cancers in men and breast and colorectal cancers in women....

• Breastfeeding May Cut Risk of Some Breast Cancers

African-American women may reduce their risk of getting an aggressive breast cancer known as ER-negative by breastfeeding, new research suggests....

• Breast Cancer Drug Fights Lung Cancer, Too

The anti-hormone drug tamoxifen, which is used to treat breast cancer, may also reduce the risk of dying from lung cancer, a study of over 6,000 women suggests....

• Breast Cancer Drug Eribulin Extends Survival

The new breast cancer drug eribulin (Halaven) extends survival two and a half months longer than other therapies for advanced breast cancer, researchers report....

• Progress in Predicting Invasive Breast Cancer

Doctors are a step closer to being able to predict which women with noninvasive breast tumors will go on to develop invasive breast cancer -- and therefore whether or not they need more aggressive treatment....

• Man’s Guide to Breast Cancer: Support and Caregiver Advice

John W. Anderson has stood by his mother, wife, sister, and his mom's closest friend as they battled breast cancer. His new book, Stand by Her: A Breast Cancer Guide for Men, details these experiences, and all that he learned by being on the frontlines of this battle with four of the most important women in his life....

• Too Many Mastectomies? Maybe Not

Doctors recommend breast-conserving surgery for 3 in 4 women with early breast cancer. Second opinions rarely differ, so surgeon advice doesn't raise mastectomy rates....

• Why Some Breast Cancer Patients Forgo Implants

Fewer than one in three women eligible for breast reconstruction surgery following mastectomy for breast cancer undergo the procedure, according a small snapshot from four counties in California....