Breast cancer is one of the most dreaded diseases among women. It plays second fiddle only to lung cancer as the top killer of women in the United States and the rest of the world. And since the 1970s, recorded cases of the disease have continuously increased at an alarming rate. Breast cancer can also [...]

New Breast Cancer Information

Breast cancer has been known as the fifth most common cause of death worldwide and the second most common type of cancer following lung cancer. It starts in the cells of the breast. With women all over the world it has become the most common cause of cancer.

In the year of 2005 [...]

Women in the US have around a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer at some stage in their lives, and a three percent chance of dying from it. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women the world over, and is second only to heart disease in total numbers of [...]

We’ve all known someone in our lifetime that has fought breast cancer – a family member, a friend, a co-worker. This article will help you see how you can support breast cancer research at home, school and the office. Learn more about the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and how they work toward preventing [...]

Stages of Breast Cancer

It is imperative for a doctor to know the stage of your breast cancer to ensure the right treatment. Breast cancer is a complicated disease with a number of risk factors attached to it. There are different stages of breast cancer which are explained below:

Stage 0:

Stage 0 is the stage of [...]

It is a little difficult to flow or understand health personnelâ??s when they begin to reel out their terms or jargons when it come to breast cancer related issues. This write-up is intended to water down all the related terms associated with breast cancer; Happy reading:
â?¢ Adenocarcinoma: Malignant tumor originating in glandular (Relating to or [...]

Breast cancer is the commonest form of cancer that occurs in women and, behind lung cancer, it is the second leading cause of cancer death among females. In 2004 some 186,772 new cases of breast cancer were reported by the American Cancer Society and this number would seem to be going up on a yearly [...]

 
When someone is first diagnosed with breast cancer they are in a state of shock and denial and will automatically turn to the health provider they trust the most to help them overcome their problem. We have been programmed to think that when we get cancer we should go straight to our doctor as he [...]

Is there such thing as hormone driven invasive breast cancer?
At present, the number of breast cancer patients have drastically reduced in the US and some experts say that this was due to the reduction of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use.
In the United States, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is quite popular. HRT and mammography are chosen [...]

Breast cancer has been deemed as the most common type of cancer among women today. There are many documented cases of men experiencing this condition as well. Normally, this specific type of cancer is related to normal changes that occur within the breast of a female on a monthly basis. While these changes are normal, [...]