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Pain often persists years after breast surgery

In a study of Danish women who had surgery for breast cancer, nearly half still reported pain 2 to 3 years later, according to a report in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.

Dense breasts linked to return of breast cancer

Women with dense breasts who have had lumpectomies for breast cancer are at a higher risk of a recurrence, according to a new study.

Obesity causes 100,000 U.S. cancer cases, group says

Obesity causes more than 100,000 cases of cancer in the United States each year -- and the number will likely rise as Americans get fatter, researchers said on Thursday.

Prognosis of Breast Cancer

A prognosis is the medical team's best guess in how cancer will affect a patient. There are many prognostic factors associated with breast cancer: staging, tumor size and location, grade, whether disease is systemic (has metastasized, or traveled to other parts of the body), recurrence of the disease, and age of patient.

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Going back to the future in personalized medicine

Shaping the future of personalized medicine is not all about developing expensive new drugs -- it will also mean revisiting older, cheaper medicines armed with new genetic knowledge.

Exercise boosts well-being after breast cancer

Being told you have breast cancer is tough emotionally, but regular exercise can help you keep your spirits up, a new study shows.

Tiny chip can measure estrogen in breast tissue

A new pocket-sized device may allow doctors to check a woman's breast cancer risk in minutes with just droplets of blood or a sliver of breast tissue, Canadian researchers said on Wednesday.

Prudent diet linked to Lower Breast Cancer Risk

A diet rich in fruits, vegetables and whole grains, and low in sweets and processed meats, may help lower the risk of breast cancer in some African-American women.

Does estrogen help women survive colon cancer?

Estrogen could help women diagnosed with advanced colon cancer to survive longer, a new study out in the journal Clinical Cancer Research suggests.

More women having a healthy breast removed

A small but growing number of women with breast cancer are choosing to have the unaffected breast removed in an effort to prevent a recurrence, researchers reported Monday.

Early form of breast cancer may need new name

A common, nonmalignant tumor of the breast called ductal carcinoma in-situ or DCIS may need a name change because the word carcinoma scares so many women, a U.S. panel of experts said on Thursday.

Fat caused 124,000 cancer cases in Europe: experts

More than 124,000 people in Europe developed cancer last year because they are overweight, and rising body fat levels threaten to add tens of thousands more to their ranks, experts said on Thursday.

Experts say cancer wave threatens poorer nations

Cancer is a bigger killer in developing countries than tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS combined and a tsunami of the disease threatens to overwhelm the nations worst equipped to cope, experts said Tuesday.

Bayer, Onyx pill beats hopes in breast cancer test

Women with breast cancer lived significantly longer without their disease getting worse when treated with Bayer and Onyx Pharmaceuticals' cancer pill Nexavar, researchers said on Wednesday.

Targeted drug strategy offers hope in skin cancer

Scientists offered new hope in the fight against a difficult-to-treat skin cancer on Wednesday as an early-stage clinical trial showed an experimental drug dramatically shrank tumors.

Heat helps in cancer treatment, BSD shares soar

Cancer patients whose tumors are targeted with heat treatment as well as chemotherapy are more likely to stay alive and cancer-free for longer than those who receive only chemotherapy, researchers said on Tuesday.

Melanoma patients live longer on Roche's Avastin

Patients with melanoma, a notoriously difficult to treat cancer of the skin, live longer when given Roche's drug Avastin, according to a scientific abstract from Europe's top cancer meeting.

Wine may curb toxic skin effects of radiation

Cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment may want to sip some red wine before tre

Healthy habits prevent breast cancer: study

Nearly 40 percent of all breast cancer cases in the United States could be prevented if women kept a healthy weight, drank less alcohol, exercised more and breastfed their babies, according to a report published on Tuesday.

Low-dose estrogen may help if breast cancer recurs

A very low dose of estrogen might help women whose breast cancer has come back after treatment, researchers reported on Tuesday.

Study traces steady declines in U.S. cancer deaths

Improvements in cancer screening and better treatments have resulted in steady declines in cancer death rates over the past three decades, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

Breast Cancer?How to Determine if you are in Good Hands

Receiving a diagnosis of breast cancer is a fear shared by millions of women. It doesn't matter their age, race, ethnicity, or other factors; this is something all women have in common.

Breastfeeding protects against breast cancer

A woman with a mother or sister with breast cancer should

Breast reconstruction may not boost well-being

Women who have a mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer seem have a similar quality of life in the long term whether they have breast reconstruction surgery or not, a research review suggests.

Experts find new targets to stop breast cancer

One of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer may originate in the cells lining the mammary ducts, which can be targeted in the fight against the disease, experts in Australia say.

Racial gap in colon cancer diagnosis, treatment

Later diagnosis and differences in treatment may be among the reasons that African Americans are less likely than whites to survive colon cancer, a study published Monday suggests.