Breast Cancer

You readily see the physical changes caused by cancer, but what goes on in your mind is just as noteworthy.

There are times when talking to another cancer patient, someone just like you, could be the key to better coping and a better life with this disease. Join a conversation, make a call, go online to make a positive change.

Jubilee Brown, M.D., obstetrician-gynecologist, Levine Cancer Institute, Carolinas HealthCare System, discusses genetic counseling for patients with breast and ovarian cancer.

Receiving a diagnosis of NED (no evidence of disease) is reason for celebration!

Breast cancer and melanoma survivor says you are allowed to feel what you are feeling, whatever that is.

New guidelines may result in a small percentage of patients with breast cancer being misclassified and not receiving proper treatment, Michael F. Press, M.D., Ph.D., says.

Only in a family like mine, where breast cancer comes up fairly often, would my daughter Kirtley call me into the bathroom to see a pimple on her breast at age 14.

Kisqali (ribociclib), a CDK 4/6 inhibitor, gained approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the frontline treatment of postmenopausal women with hormone-receptor (HR)–positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

I’m lying there with the machines swirling around me, staring up at a faux light, and literally, it was as if the clouds started moving. And I thought ‘Would be great to have a lemonade right now.’” - Apryl Allen

Multiple trials are testing the potential of immunotherapy combinations in breast cancer. The results are exciting, explains Elizabeth A. Mittendorf, M.D., Ph.D.

After surgery and treatment, some breast cancer survivors may develop fibromyalgia. Medication can help, but it's an individual choice to take it.

Winning (and losing) the Academy Awards can be like fighting cancer.

Breast cancer and melanoma survivor ponders the heart of the cancer diagnosis--a lifetime of ongoing uncertainty.

Communication is often a big issue in cancer care.

My hair tells the world that treatment is over and I am a survivor. If only it were that simple.

Hearing that you have cancer can be overwhelming, so it is important to take notes and ask questions.

When faced with breast cancer treatment, patients must make fertility preservation decisions ahead of treatment. But how do they feel about their decisions over time?

A breast cancer and melanoma survivor remembers the emotions and experiences after surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation are finished.

Masculine medicine for the modern man

Remembering what the fear of breast cancer felt like on the day you were diagnosed is not only necessary, but valuable.

Poor diet in adolescence and early adulthood may increase a woman's chance of developing premenopausal breast cancer, according to the findings of a recent study.

HairToStay focuses on getting patients with cancer access to cooling caps so that they reduce their chance of losing their hair.

The CARE Act is helping caregivers of patients with cancer get the support and education that they need.

Managing brain metastases has become a difficult problem in patients with breast cancer.

Breast cancer and melanoma survivor vents about her weight gain frustrations several years out from her original cancer diagnosis.

We whisper it. We avoid it. But as scary as open communication is, we must utter that word.

Two-time survivor reflects about the cancer experience and offers perspective and hope.

After two years of writing for CURE, my story is suddenly as real as it gets.

The routine removal of sentinel nodes during surgery for breast cancer may not be necessary, and can contribute to painful lymphedema.

The loss of hair during cancer treatment really can be devastating.