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

Finding the Right Combination

BY LAURA BEIL

For ER-positive breast cancer, researchers look to find which drugs work best, how they should be sequenced, and how long they should be taken.

HER2 Negative

Adding Avastin May Slow Disease Progression

BY LAURA BEIL

Studies have shown that Avastin, an angiogenesis inhibitor, has delayed disease progression in breast cancer patients, but a survival benefit has yet to be seen. 

HER2 Positive

Herceptin Combinations Improve Survival, Lessen Heart Toxicity

BY LAURA BEIL

Two recent studies offer hope of enhancing both the effectiveness and safety of Herceptin, the drug that helped introduce the era of targeted therapy.

Screening

Screening Options Challenging for High-Risk Women

BY LAURA BEIL

Studies have suggested that MRI, along with mammography, is the best means of detecting breast cancer earlier among high-risk women.


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. 
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? 
ER-Positive

Does CYP2D6 Predict Who Benefits From Tamoxifen?

BY MELISSA WEBER

An enzyme called CYP2D6 converts tamoxifen to its active form, and some research has suggested that if the enzyme is blocked, tamoxifen won’t be as effective, thus causing patients to recur sooner than women with normal enzyme activity. 
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