Breast Cancer News

Shelley Volz, now 59, got the news about her breast cancer diagnosis 10 years ago, right before she was headed from San Francisco to New York for the wedding of her younger brother.

While the incidence of breast cancer in young women in the U.S. is relatively rare, there are more than 250,000 women under the age of forty that are living with the disease and 11,000 will be diagnosed in the ...

Campaigners for the breast cancer drug Herceptin say they will not give up, no matter what Pharmac decides.

At 28, Dina Melendez thought about adding a second child, not losing a breast. Don't worry, the doctor told her.

A breast cancer support group launched by Support Connection Inc. will hold its inaugural meeting in Dutchess County next month.

Children's advocates say they hope a sweeping consumer protection law passed by Congress last week will begin a broad national effort to shield youngsters from dangerous chemicals.

When I first heard that actress Christina Applegate had breast cancer , I wondered how the 36-year-old's tumor was detected.

D1 The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation was hoping to paint the country pink to encourage participation in this year's Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure.

The Associated Press is reporting that actress Christina Applegate, 36, will begin treatment for breast cancer.

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Promoter polymorphism in the endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene is associated with risk of sporadic breast cancer in non-Hispanic white women age younger than 55 years.

A GROUP of martial arts students from Hereford have joined a campaign to highlight the fact that breast cancer can affect men as well as women.

Genell Kelso has never liked to do what we usually think of as exercise. But the 72-year-old breast cancer survivor and Dallas grandmother of four keeps fit by doing what she likes to do: performing.

An emergency room doctor from Anchorage is spreading the word about the importance of early cancer detection.

Surgeons in action with the Intrabeam, a state-of-the-art piece of technology which cuts the need for multiple radiotherapy sessions.

Sources confirm to ET that 36-year-old "Samantha Who" star Christina Applegate has been diagnosed with breast cancer.

Too busy. Too expensive. Too scary. Those are all common excuses for many women who haven't gotten a breast mammogram.

Cancer is something very frightening that we all fear of one day getting. Most people think it is a horrible thing, which it is, but they dont exactly know what it is.

An unhealthy diet, lack of exercise and a generous waistline put me at risk for heart disease.

As a mother of three with no health insurance and a low-wage job, 32-year-old Brandielee Marendo was thrilled to get into the Army.