Plastics Chemical Might Promote Breast Cancer

A chemical found in the harder plastics that make up CD cases, water-cooler jugs and other objects people handle might help promote breast cancer, researchers say.

Breast Cancer Treatment Safe During Pregnancy

Pregnant women with breast cancer can be safely treated with a common chemotherapy combination during both the second and third trimesters, researchers report.

Boosting Killer Cells Might Improve Breast-cancer Drug

A drug that targets a particular type of breast cancer might be more effective if patients are also given a substance made by the body that stimulates certain immune cells.

Pain Killer Fights Breast Cancer by Targeting Key Enzyme

A pain-killing medication appears to halt the production of an enzyme that is key to a common form of breast cancer.

African-American women prone to aggressive form of breast cancer

Premenopausal black women are twice as likely to get basal-like breast tumors—a particularly virulent form of the disease.

Raloxifen equals tamoxifen in preventing breast cancer

The osteoporosis drug raloxifene is as effective as the cancer drug tamoxifen in reducing the risk of invasive breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

Researchers identify gene mutation possibly linked to breast cancer

Researchers have found evidence that a mutation in a gene that normally helps block the formation of breast tumors could play a role in a major form of breast cancer.

Some benign breast lesions could be dangerous

Certain breast lesions diagnosed as benign on core needle biopsy have cancer at surgical excision and thus should be removed.

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Breast asymmetry predicts breast cancer

Treating Cancer That Has Spread

New Hope For Those With Inflammatory Breast Cancer

Regular use of selective COX-2 inhibitors decreases risk of breast cancer

Breast Cancer Chemotherapy

Gene Variation Affects Tamoxifen's Benefit For Breast Cancer

Study Links Dairy Products To Moderate Breast Cancer Risk Reduction

Mastectomy vs. Lumpectomy

Radiotherapy Improves 15-Year Survival After Breast-Conserving Surgery

Mammography vs. Ductal Lavage: An Interview with Dr. Susan Love

Low-Dose Chemotherapy Plus Anti-Angiogenesis Drug Has Activity In Advanced Breast Cancer