Breast Cancer

My messages about my body and who I am have changed yet again.

Explaining post-cancer fatigue to family and friends can be frustrating, but using a visual example might help them understand.

Obesity can negatively impact breast cancer outcomes, and an ongoing study is looking into why -- and how these risks can be mitigated.

The importance of rearranging the list of what you really want to talk about with the doctor

Will I see the last woman die of breast cancer in my lifetime?

Breast cancer can be hereditary but family members shouldn't expect it to be part of their lives. Routine mammograms can be the best preventative for early detection.

When I had breast cancer in 2012, Mom showed her loved through food.

When receiving a cancer diagnosis, more often than not, all relationships are impacted.

A recent study examined how age plays a factor in cancer risk for women with the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genetic mutation.

Whenever I exercise, I seem not to know what I am doing. Is it lack of coordination or is it too much attention to movement?

This morning, Senate Republican leaders released the draft of a bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).

Finding relief from the painful condition of lymphedema is a challenge, but there is research that using weights may help.

Prosthesis ups and downs.

This is probably not about what you’re thinking.

Green can be a beautiful color full of life, but it can also be the color of chemotherapy.

The possibility of carrying the BRCA gene mutation can be concerning to women who've been diagnosed with cancer especially when their children may eventually be affected.

A cancer survivor examines the link between health and humor.

The star heads into the world of ongoing breast cancer treatment just as a major new study of metastatic breast cancer in the United States gives a little more hope to those with the disease

How do we define how we feel and answer the question, "How do you feel?"

Angela Schmidt Fishbaugh talks about being diagnosed with breast cancer after a mastectomy, changing her from a previvor to survivor.

Adding Perjeta (pertuzumab) to postoperative Herceptin (trastuzumab) improved survival in certain patients with breast cancer.

Alan Blassberg, Director/Producer of Pink and Blue: Colors of Hereditary Cancer, discusses being a male BRCA carrier.

Sharon Bober, PhD, discusses how patients can ask their doctors about sexual health.

Those considering mastectomy to help prevent inherited breast cancer, or because they’ve been diagnosed with the disease, are likely to find themselves sorting through a host of complex questions.

“This is the first phase 3 study to show an advantage of a PARP inhibitor over standard of care chemotherapy in breast cancer patients with a BRCA mutation,” said principal OLYMPIAD investigator Mark E. Robson, M.D., Clinic Director of the Clinical Genetics Service at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

The program XRAYS is a resource to help patients, survivors and their loved ones make sense of the articles on hereditary cancer they see in the mainstream media and via social media platforms.

Self-esteem and body image suffer after a breast cancer diagnosis. Finding a way to move past the trauma is challenging for some.

Chemobrain is more than being lazy or forgetful sometimes.

Becoming pregnant does not increase a woman's chance of having her breast cancer recur, according to a recent study presented at ASCO.

A recent clinical trial showed that psychological intervention can ease patients' anxiety and fear of recurrence.