A study presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Conference in December confirmed that increasing the amount of starch in one’s diet, especially during the year following your diagnosis and More »
Research conducted here at Johns Hopkins has confirmed that removing both ovaries (a double oophorectomy) as a way to treat or reduce a woman's risk of breast and/or ovarian cancer is not More »
For some time now, we've known that breast-cancer patients who receive chemotherapy have trouble with their thought processes during and after this treatment. More »
The first in an occasional series. More »
Who would have ever guessed that a drug commonly used for diabetes would turn out to be something that might reduce cancer risk? More »
It’s been suspected for some time that when a female fetus is exposed in utero to DES (the first synthetic form of estrogen)--because her mother happened to be prescribed this drug during pregnancy More »
Virtually every woman on this earth has experienced pain caused by her breasts. More »
For the past three decades, researchers have known that alcohol is what's called a carcinogenic agent to people. That is, it probably contributes to cancer. More »
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. You will no doubt be seeing lots of slogans and messages promoting breast health, including mammography. More »
Those of you with hereditary breast cancer (confirmed by the finding that you carry a breast-cancer gene), please listen up. More »