Breast Cancer

Cancer decisions get to be made based on each person's unique situation.

Why does shame seem to go along with a cancer diagnosis, and how can we help each other?

Tests like these are growing increasingly important, as TOO results lead to treatment changes about 65 percent of the time and a site treatment change about 35 percent of the time, according to Cancer Genetics.

Can you believe I was invited to pay tribute to “Wonder Woman” in Baltimore last month? It’s true! I’ve never been so proud or excited. At 60 years old, that’s saying something.

We have the right and the obligation to honor our "veto vote" where our own health and healing is concerned.

Breast cancer brings an unexpected type of notoriety. Read this survivor's story.

Just because you don't look sick, it doesn't mean that you are not.

How has cancer changed my life? Let me count they ways.

Cancer is a serious business. But who said it needs to be a business of seriousness?

The memories formed during a bout with breast cancer can be both painful and challenging. This article shares openly about a daughter's feelings for her mother as she struggled to fight cancer.

Two-time cancer survivor works through her feelings as her double mastectomy approaches.

Breast cancer survivor with the recently discovered PALB2 genetic mutation discusses her upcoming prophylactic double mastectomy with reconstruction.

Following fertility clinic malfunctions in Cleveland and San Francisco, many patients who have or had cancer are facing devastating losses, leaving many questions in the wake of these events.

My experience with inflammatory breast cancer has been both wonderful and weird, even at the same time.

Traveling with breast prostheses presents its own set of challenges; some real and some imagined.

If we find ourselves coasting through cancer, it may be time to kick it up a notch.

"I have grown as a person since becoming a cancer survivor," says breast cancer and melanoma survivor Barbara Tako.

My pain has persisted for years, and it could last forever. But it's a small price to pay to be cancer-free.

When roles change over time, use your cancer super powers to help, says melanoma and breast cancer survivor Barbara Tako.

In this episode, we’ll talk with founder Donna Deegan herself about the foundation and its efforts, as well as the foundation’s executive director Amanda Napolitano on how much they have raised so far, and we’ll hear from one very inspiring participant Hollis Youngner.

Since my cancer diagnosis at the age of 32, I put a little target on turning 40. It was more like a hope. I hoped I’d get the chance to celebrate being 40.

William J. Gradishar, M.D., discusses the potential surgical implications for a woman with breast cancer who tests positive for a BRCA mutation, and why it is important to be aware of this genetic information.

Findings from a new study presented at the American College of Cardiology’s 67th Annual Scientific Session showed that adding two popular heart medications to the chemotherapy regimen may prevent heart damage from happening in these patients.

Breast cancer survivor Carolyn Choate is glad she's taken the opportunity to reevaluate her cancer experience and see it for what it truly was. And is.

Male breast cancer is rare, making it that much more important to recognize.

This survivor regrets not being there when her mother passed away from metastatic breast cancer.

Breast cancer survivor's questions about genetic testing are ahead of the research.

This breast cancer survivor believes each of us is precious and unique, and that is helpful to stop comparing ourselves to each other.

To most of the world, the day I had a mastectomy was just another day. But to me, it was the start of so many changes in my life.

Desperate times call for desperate measures and a little creativity, too. This lighthearted look at fake breasts may make you smile.