Breast Cancer

From Blink-182’s bassist Mark Hoppus discussing his cancer experience in an upcoming book to Bruce Sutter, a Hall-of-Fame pitcher and Cy Young winner, dying of the disease, here’s what’s happening in the cancer space this week.

It is essential that patients with breast cancer speak up to their health care providers, be it advocating for genetic testing or discussing symptoms.

My view on Breast Cancer Awareness month — aka “Pinktober” — shifted after my daughter was diagnosed.

Chest numbness following a mastectomy can be truly daunting, but patients with breast cancer don’t have to suffer in silence — and it may not be something they have to live with.

These results, which showed that a patient with inflammatory breast cancer may have an increased risk for brain metastases if certain factors are present, may alert patients and doctors to consider routine brain scans while they undergo treatment for their disease.

An FDA approval put Ki-67 scoring — which may predict tumor growth — in the spotlight, but what that means long term to patients depends on who you ask.

My trip to the White House to advocate for myself and other patients with cancer was an empowering and memorable experience.

There are ways to manage the fear of cancer recurrence, so it doesn’t become overwhelming or debilitating. Physicians like me and a network of resources are here to help.

Here are some tips on how I helped a friend who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

I recently decided to stop feeling like a victim in life after cancer. Instead, I’ll celebrate life every day.

A woman with stage 2 invasive ductal carcinoma — a type of breast cancer that begins in the milk ducts of the breast — shares how her experience as an employee at a breast cancer research facility helped her push against doctors who minimized her ultrasound findings and how her Ki-67 score informed her treatment choices.

“Novel approaches to immunotherapy, targeted therapy and combinations with standard chemotherapy are all areas of current research interest,” says an expert at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Sarcoma Center in Boston. “(Secondary breast cancer) can be very challenging when it recurs, so we need to continue to work toward improving systemic therapies through ongoing international trials and collaboration across the community of patients and physicians. That’s what’s going to help us improve outcomes.”

A professional illustrator and former cancer caregiver uses a detailed step-by-step approach using simple shapes such as circles and rectangles to demonstrate how others can easily draw a lion.

The Food and Drug Administration granted a priority review to Trodelvy for previously treated locally advanced or metastatic HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer.

The designation of HER2-low status is rapidly reshaping how researchers and care providers not only think about, but also treat, breast cancer.

I wish “Pinktober” was more about saving the people who will die from breast cancer and less about pink ribbons and sexualizing the disease.

It’s easy to question treatment choices patients with cancer make, but my job as the mother of a patient was to be supportive.

I didn’t let my cancer diagnoses get in the way of living life.

I turned my cancer-related depression and frustration with the health care system into something positive for others with the disease.

From the death of standup comedian and "Love Goddess" Judy Tenuta to professional sports hall-of-famers discussing their cancer, here’s what’s happening in the cancer space this week.

A patient with metastatic breast cancer shares how she learned that her disease was recently reclassified as HER-2 low, and what it was like to first learn about the FDA-approved drug years before she would be prescribed the treatment.

High levels of inflammation, as well as high BMI and later-stage disease, may be predictors of weakness after chemotherapy treatment in older patients with breast cancer, which may hold potential in guiding treatment decisions.

The switch from private insurance to Medicare was a struggle — especially considering my need for cancer care — that was not solved by numerous phone calls, but by Twitter instead.

Looking back on my breast cancer experience, I contemplate what it means to thrive.

It’s been 20 years since my cancer diagnosis, and in that time, I’ve changed significantly.