CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- A breast cancer treatment based on MIT Lincoln Lab radar research has advanced to randomized clinical trials, the final phase of clinical testing. Approximately 220 women with early-stage breast cancer will participate in the new study, which began Oct. 1, the first day of Breast

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION  During National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we recognize the progress being made towards a cure for this disease, which robs so many women of their health and, in too many cases, their lives. This year, an estimated 203,000

Join actress Melina Kanakaredes and Lee Jeans® for Lee National Denim Day® and the fight against breast cancer. On Friday, October 4, 2002, organizations nationwide will join together by wearing denim and pink ribbons in exchange for a $5 million donation to breast cancer research.

LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., M.D., chair-elect of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation board of directors, testified recently at a joint senate hearing titled "Making Sense of the Mammography Controversy: What Women Need to Know." The hearing, held by Senators Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)

The issue of whether screening mammography helps reduce breast cancer mortality continues to be debated. The study that has fueled the current controversy was published in October 2001 in The Lancet, a prominent British medical journal. The study was a meta-analysis (statistical evaluat