Breast Cancer

Women with breast cancer who are positive for the BRCA gene mutation may be more likely to encounter difficulty with fertility preservation compared to women with breast cancer who have tested negative for the BRCA mutation.

Nausea and vomiting are no longer top concerns for patients undergoing chemotherapy. Socio-psychological concerns, instead, have jumped to the forefront.

Women want bilateral mastectomy more often, and many are getting it.

Be prepared. After cancer, other medical issues can trigger outsized emotional responses.

It's been said that reaching the ten-year mark means you are home free. But are you?

Up-and-coming treatments for patients with triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) may include immunotherapy combinations, according to Sylvia Adams, M.D.

As unpredictable as the weather, the cycle of cancer is often difficult to forecast.

If I’d known I would forget so easily, I would have snapped a photo. I could have easily locked the photo away for safe keeping. When I got the urge to remember, I could have pulled out the photo and looked, but would that have really been a good thing?

A breast cancer and melanoma survivor who also speaks and writes about clutter clearing shares some cancer clutter clearing tips.

Stress reduction is a vital part of breast cancer survivorship. Learn how one survivor incorporated the word

There is a relationship between the genetics of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations and the risk of a patient with breast or ovarian cancer being resistant to platinum-based chemotherapy, according to recent research conducted at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. The study’s senior author Katherine Nathanson, M.D., spoke with CURE about these findings.

Aromatase inhibitors cause unwanted side effects. More and more women are choosing not to take them, but is this a good idea?

Melanoma survivor offers help based on her own melanoma experience and reading.

Survivor shares that there is no shame to talk to a therapist about life’s difficulties, especially when those difficulties have included coping with a cancer diagnosis and the ongoing fear of recurrence.

Sometimes the person you share your life with can help save yours.

Cancer has a silver lining, too. Breast cancer and melanoma survivor shares hers.

Reach out now to your friend with cancer.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Faslodex (fulvestrant) to treat patients with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, HER2-negative locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer in postmenopausal women who were not treated with endocrine therapy.

A male breast cancer survivor ponders the power of attitude.

Life with cancer, like life in general, gives us plenty of chances to practice being grateful.

Medicine is becoming more personalized for patients with breast cancer as physicians continue to understand both the disease itself and genomic testing that can lead to more optimal treatment plans.

Seven-year breast cancer survivor offers ideas to cope with cancer emotions.