Breast Cancer News & Features
- Breast Cancer: Closer to a Cure
Susan Love, MD, says we're making progress in the war on breast cancer
- The Breast Cancer Fight: How to Get Involved
There are many ways you can make your mark on the fight against breast cancer.
- Circle of Friends
Across cyberspace, breast cancer survivors meet and share their stories.
- Becoming a Proactive Cancer Patient
Becoming a proactive cancer patient can help you better cope with your condition.
- What to Do After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Experts explain what newly diagnosed cancer patients need to know to help fight their disease.
- What to Do After a Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Experts explain what newly diagnosed cancer patients need to know to help fight their disease.
- Breast Cancer Survivors: Managing Treatment Side Effects
New drugs and therapies fight the side effects of treatments for breast cancer, such as nausea, fatigue, and nerve damage.
- Clinical Trials for Breast Cancer
Learn about clinical trials for breast cancer.
- A Breast Cancer Survivor's Grief: Losing Your Doctor
Doctors aren't supposed to die before their patients. When it happened to breast cancer survivor Gina Shaw, she felt scared and bereft. What she learned can help us all.
- Assessing New Treatments for Breast Cancer
Heard about a new breast cancer treatment but not sure if it's right for you? These guidelines will help.
- New Treatments for Breast Cancer
These advances in treating breast cancer aren't on the horizon. They're here, right now.
- New Treatments for Breast Cancer: Talking With Your Doctor
Heard about a new breast cancer treatment you'd like to try? Partner with your doctor to find out more.
- Breast Cancer Survivors: Coping with Fears of Recurrence
Breast cancer survivors must cope with fears of recurrence. Learn coping strategies that help.
- Breast Cancer Survivors: Life After the Treatments End
The breast cancer treatments are over. Now what? Here's how to return to your "new normal."
- Getting a Loved One Through Breast Cancer
Knowing the dos and don'ts of helping someone you love with breast cancer goes a long way.
- How Breast Cancer Affects Fertility
What there is to know about having a baby when you have breast cancer.
- Eating Right During Cancer Treatment
Cancer treatment can sap your appetite, but that's when getting adequate nutrition is more important than ever. Here's how to meet your needs.
- Breast Cancer Research: Milestones
Vision and sheer determination have given us hope for breast cancer treatment and prevention.
- Breast Cancer: Answers to Your Questions
How do you tell the kids? How can you stay calm? There are some questions your doctor can't answer. Here are insights from people who understand – other women with breast cancer.
- Love, Intimacy, and Breast Cancer
What now? Here are insights on intimacy from women living – and loving – with breast cancer.
- Breast Cancer: Diet Tips
You may feel tired and smells may nauseate, but it's important to keep your energy up during treatment. Here are some suggestions.
- Poor Women With Breast Cancer Do Worse
January 13, 2003 — Though black, Hispanic, and American Indian women tend to have poorer breast cancer outcomes than white women, poverty is a far more important predictor of breast cancer death than race.
- The Guy's Guide to Breast Cancer
If the woman you love is diagnosed with breast cancer, you have to cope, too.
- The Future of Breast Cancer Screening
An array of high-tech detection techniques and devices is on the scientific horizon.
- New Approaches to Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer
From tweaking the size and timing of chemotherapy, to adjusting how it's administered, small improvements are making a big difference in women's lives.
- Cutting-Edge Breast Cancer Therapy
Future breast cancer treatments will be a lot smarter about the cells they target.
- Hope on the Horizon for Advanced Breast Cancer
New Treatments Are Prolonging Survival and Improving Quality of Life
- Love, Intimacy, and Breast Cancer
What now? Here are insights on intimacy from women living – and loving – with breast cancer.
- Living With Cancer
Women with breast cancer face a big decision: Are the benefits of the cancer drug tamoxifen worth the risks?
- Not for Women Only
John Cope was shocked when he learned he had breast cancer. Then he made himself a warrior -- and survived.
- Getting Tough About Breast Cancer
Activist Barbara Brenner isn't content with pink ribbons, breast cancer walks, and fundraising postage stamps. She's an in-your-face fighter against the disease.
- Fighting Cancer With Exercise: One Woman's Story.
Fighting Cancer With Exercise: One Woman's Story
- Missing the Diagnosis
When a mammogram fails, does a woman have the right to sue?
- Why a Mammogram May Miss a Tumor
Medical experts say there are several reasons why a mammogram may fail to detect a cancerous tumor.
- Looking for High-Quality Mammography
Women seeking mammograms can find the highest quality screenings from radiologists and doctors who have years of experience performing and reading mammograms on a daily basis.
- Fight Fat, Fight Cancer
For years, research on whether exercise helps reduce breast cancer risk has turned up conflicting results. Now the clouds of confusion are starting to clear.