Breast Cancer

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.

Two-time cancer survivor offers help for fatigue, including fatigue that is months and years out from active treatment

Sometimes powerful, sometimes painful, there are lessons in cancer at every turn.

A breast cancer survivor learns to shed her old identity and adapt to her new one.

We are never prepared to hear the words, "You have cancer."

Survivors tend to find ways to trick themselves into feeling better, from “Look Good Feel Better” to prayer. Singing in the shower (or bathtub) has helped me. What strategies have you designed?

Breast cancer and melanoma survivor comments on downsizing from a cancer survivor's perspective.

Is male breast cancer more similar or dissimilar to breast cancer in women?

Testing for breast cancer patients seems to be unending. Receiving the results can be nerve wracking but learning to accept results with with grace is powerful.

Individualized treatments are key for older patients with breast cancer, expert Arti Hurria, M.D. said.

What is the story you share with the world, and how has cancer changed it?

It was four years after my mastectomy when I noticed something strange.

Lymphedema can cause problems when you run out of veins.

When everyone around you expects an endless fight against cancer, hope and love and acceptance are powerful forces.

Finding clothing that fits is a constant challenge for those suffering from the side effects of lymphedema. One survivor shares her dilemma.

If you want to take botanicals to help fight your cancer, be sure they have been studied.

Leaving nipples intact during mastectomy can cosmetically improve breast reconstruction results without raising the risk of cancer recurrence, a study has shown.

Does the fear of a recurrence of breast cancer haunt every cancer survivor? Are these feelings normal? How can we combat these feelings of fear?

These are just some of the things that have changed in my life since my mastectomy. Maybe they are things that I have chosen to change.

How I’m learning to survive cancer and aging at the same time

Breast cancer survivor approaches the phone with dread with Mom in hospice with breast cancer.

One of CURE's followers on Facebook recounted this gem: "Do you think you got breast cancer because of sin?"

There are many questions associated with breast cancer testing and their accuracy. Do tumor markers give accurate understanding of what's happening in an person's body? Why do some doctors use the test and some do not? These are just a couple of the questions we need answered.

A guy with male breast cancer discovers what happens when cancer is bigger than the person.