Breast Cancer

Updates from the 2007 meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology includes news on liver, kidney, lung, colon, pancreatic and breast cancers.

Patients benefit from ease and success of modern breast cancer screening.

The mainstays of screening for recurrent breast cancer remains physical exams and mammography, although researchers are looking for better ways to predict and find recurrences.

As data emerge from a surge of new therapies, doctors combine the best of the best.

Women need [and are now getting] more than medical care to heal from breast cancer.

Breast cancer prevention meets success with new agents and a new thinking.

A guide to how breast cancers are staged, from in situ (stage 0) to metastatic (stage IV).

A once frightening diagnosis, inflammatory breast cancer now has treatment options.

More coverage means more people are screened, and colon cancers are caught earlier.

Why breast cancer patients may gain weight during treatment and how to manage it.

A resource listing of men’s groups dedicated to helping other men cope with their spouse’s cancer while contributing to cancer research.

An approval in breast cancer, positive clinical trial results in liver cancer, while a prostate cancer drug disappoints.

This article discusses genetic test kits and the types of cancer they test for.

Updates from the American Society of Hematology Meeting and the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

New approvals for colorectal, lung, breast, head & neck cancer and lymphoma.

Therapies improve for asbestos-caused cancer.

Status of noninvasive breast cancer gets some clarity.

Researchers designed the Van Nuys Prognostic Index to aid in treatment decisions for women diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ, DCIS.

Asbestos litigation has become the most costly mass tort in U.S. legal history.

Dr. Aman Buzdar discusses the latest breast cancer treatment strategies with aromatase inhibitors.

Zora Brown's longtime enemy caused her to remake her life to educate African-American women about breast cancer.

The individual & family decisions behind testing for genetic cancer risk.

Learning about one's genetic status may open a Pandora's box of personal and familial issues.

Chemoprevention options exist for individuals with high risk of breast, prostate, or colorectal cancers.

This article discusses premature menopause as a result of cancer treatments.