Breast Cancer

The new GOP health care bill is causing concern for those suffering pre-existing medical conditions. How will it affect those with cancer?

I'm hopeful and scared. Why it's OK to feel both at once when you're living with cancer.

Cryoablation is a fairly new treatment being used to treat small cancer tumors. Could we soon see it offered as an alternative to traditional breast cancer surgeries?

Per the American Cancer Society, removing both breasts before cancer is diagnosed can reduce the risk of breast cancer by up to 97 percent. However, a new study finds that this may be an unnecessary surgery in patients with DCIS.

As we approach summer, a melanoma survivor recovers from her fresh wounds and shares her thoughts.

It’s the empty place that lies between diagnosis and treatment, but it’s full of life.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new silicone gel-filled breast implant option, MemoryGel® Xtra, according to Mentor Worldwide LLC, the producer of the implants.

We are all so busy, busy, busy with our lives until cancer slows us down, at least temporarily.

Noreen Fraser, co-founder and producer of the annual "Stand Up to Cancer" telethon has died of stage 4 breast cancer at the age of 63.

Cancer has become my unexpected obsession. But there's an upside to that.

We roll the dice every day. When are the odds in our favor?

Living well with metastatic cancer means finding ways to accept the diagnoses and continue to move forward.

Just when there's so much to say, you can find yourself walking a verbal tightrope. Let love lead the way.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared for marketing the nation’s second cooling cap — Paxman Scalp Cooling System — to reduce hair loss in patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy.

In an interview with CURE, Katz, professor of Medicine and Health Management and policy at the University of Michigan, discussed his study of patient reaction to surgeon recommendations about CPM.

Offering comfort and compassion to newly diagnosed women can be a blessing.

Cancer survivor is happy to not be the center of so much attention and to move her own attention elsewhere after cancer.

Breast cancer is challenging and confusing. It causes people to stop and think, to reevaluate life. In that reevaluation time, many questions arise too.

As survivors, sometimes we step outside our comfort zones to help groups that raise awareness about cancer along with funds for research. Representing survivorship at a Relay for Life event can be as important as donating funds or decorating luminaries.

Do I have cancer? Did I have cancer? I may have an answer.

Despite the incidence of breast cancer either holding steady or decreasing in other U.S. racial/ethnic groups, it has been increasing in Asian-American women for the past 25 years.

Sometimes I’m referred to as a cancer "survivor," but I just don’t see myself as such.

Breast cancer survivor looks back and describes her radiation treatment and shares her tips.

Patients with early, HER2-positive breast cancer were found to be more likely to respond to the dual HER2-blockade, according to a recent study.

Offering love and support to a loved one going through cancer is one of the best ways to show you care.

We have all attributed a slip of the tongue or a forgetful moment to chemobrain and then laughed.

A two-time cancer survivor, breast cancer and melanoma, discusses the empty nest process and cancer.

Laura Yeager, breast cancer survivor, reflects on her journey and life as a survivor in her prose poem “On Losing My Nipples.”

To assist surgeons in assessing margins in the operating room, The MarginProbe System was created by Dune Medical Devices. Using the tool, surgeons can get immediate information about the presence of cancer cells on the margins of a tumor.

Tecentriq showed impressive long-term survival in patients with metastatic TNBC, according to the results from a recent study.