The Concept and Reality of Precision Medicine

A study found that sentinel lymph node biopsy rarely missed remaining cancer in patients with locally advanced breast cancer whose lymph nodes responded to chemotherapy before surgery.

Lower income, later diagnosis and gaps in treatment drove most of the excess deaths among rural patients, according to new research.

The FDA has cleared TumorSight Risk, software that uses a patient's existing breast MRI, pathology and clinical information to estimate the chance that early HR-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer will come back within five and 10 years.

Twenty-four years after breast cancer, one survivor reflects on mammogram anxiety, the relief of clear results and the gratitude of living beyond cancer.

The immunotherapy may allow some patients with a specific genetic subtype of rectal cancer to avoid surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.

In a randomized trial of nearly 100,000 women in Germany, 3D mammography found a larger share of breast cancers at the screening visit, but its 24% lower rate of cancers found between screenings was not statistically significant.

Eileen Carter was told she had two to three years to live after a stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis. A second opinion changed her care.

Debbie Legault, whose daughter was diagnosed with breast cancer at 27, urges shoppers to skip pink ribbon products and donate directly to support organizations.