Breast Cancer

There's lots of great new research to be excited about but there's still no cure.

Abemaciclib was granted a priority review to a new drug application (NDA) to treat patients with advanced hormone receptor (HR)­­–positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, according to Eli Lilly and Company, the manufacturer of the CDK4/6 inhibitor.

Cancer can feel like a ticking time bomb. Here's how one cancer survivor diffused it.

When I returned home from my first visit to my surgeon after my diagnosis of breast cancer, I could see the look of worry on my mother's face.

Three years ago, breast cancer interrupted this survivor's life. Read more to learn how she accepted and embraced that life altering challenge.

Fear of recurrence can motivate good living, but it can also stop you from living.

For many who have been through the experience, whether you call it a return, recurrence or anything else, it’s something they lay awake at night thinking about, and worrying about.

Breast cancer is no holiday.

We'll do anything for our best friend...

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.