Cancer Type

Our Favorite Resources for Breast

  • A nonprofit website dedicated to providing the most reliable and complete information available.
    Breastcancer.org

  • Provides educational materials, events, newsletters, a Young Survivors Network, and a toll-free helpline at 800-753-5222.
    Living Beyond Breast Cancer

  • A comprehensive site that offers a toll-free helpline (1-800-I'M AWARE), educational materials, advocacy, and fundraising events.
    Susan G. Komen for the Cure

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INFORMATION BY CANCER TYPE

Breast

Screening Options Challenging for High-Risk Women

BY LAURA BEIL

Some of the most agonizing prevention choices occur among women with the highest risk of breast cancer. Because they carry mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, these women may have as much as a 60 percent risk of breast cancer before age 70. Previous studies have suggested that MRI, along with mammography, is the best means of detecting breast cancer earlier among these women, but these studies have had gaps. Most notably, they haven’t used good comparison groups, says Ellen Warner, MD, of the Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre in Toronto. 

HER2 Negative

Adding Avastin May Slow Disease Progression

BY LAURA BEIL

Angiogenesis inhibitors—drugs designed to choke off a tumor’s blood supply—have been met with both praise and skepticism. The one angiogenesis inhibitor approved for breast cancer, called Avastin (bevacizumab), has seen its share of controversy.

HER2 Positive

Herceptin Combinations Improve Survival, Lessen Heart Toxicity

BY LAURA BEIL

Two studies presented Saturday offer hope of enhancing both the effectiveness and safety of Herceptin (trastuzumab), the drug that helped introduce the era of targeted therapy.

Young Adults

Unexpected & Unique

BY MONICA ZANGWILL, MD

The challenges of breast cancer in women under 40.


More in Breast

Triple-Negative

Targeting the Triple Threat

BY NICOLE LEBRASSEUR, PHD AND HEATHER L. VAN EPPS, PHD

There's now something to take aim at in triple-negative breast cancer. 
Treatment

A New Era

BY ELIZABETH WHITTINGTON

As data emerge from a surge of new therapies, doctors combine the best of the best.
Non-invasive Cancer

In Situ Breast Cancer: Is It Really Cancer?

BY BEVERLY A. CALEY

Status of noninvasive breast cancer gets some clarity. 
Early-Stage Cancer

Finding Your Compass

BY KATY HUMAN

New research and tools illuminate the multiple treatment paths faced by patients with early-stage invasive breast cancer.
Metastatic Cancer

Dancing In Limbo

BY KATHY LATOUR

Three women share the uncertainty of living with metastatic breast cancer. 
Breast Reconstruction

Information Please

BY CHARLOTTE HUFF

Why aren't more women having breast reconstruction? 
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