Medicare beneficiaries with breast cancer who had a greater number of visits to primary care physicians in the two years preceding their diagnosis have better breast cancer outcomes, including greater use of mammography, reduced odds of late-stage diagnosis, and lower overall and breast cancer morta

Young women at high familial risk for breast cancer may see an even greater risk from diagnostic scans that expose them to chest radiation, including mammograms, researchers found.   Any diagnostic use of radiation before age 30 increased breast cancer risk by 90 percent for carriers of BRCA1

Drugmaker Geron Corp lost more than half its market value after it said it halted a study of its experimental treatment for breast cancer and was unlikely to move forward in trials for advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Geron stopped the mid-stage breast cancer trial after an interim check showed

The study, published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention is the largest of its kind in Australia and one of the largest in the world. It followed about 4,000 women in a study of the BreastScreen program in Western Australia. University of Melbourne Research Fellow Dr Carolyn Nickson

Women having surgery for breast cancer are up to three times more likely to have severe pain in the first week after surgery if they suffer from other painful conditions, such as arthritis, low back pain and migraine, according to a Cancer Research UK study published recently (Wednesday 5th) in the

A large meta-analysis conducted by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center has concluded that breast cancer patients treated with chemotherapy are at risk for mild cognitive deficits after treatment. The meta-analysis, or analytic review of previously published studies, found that study participants on

Disease-free survival for invasive ductal breast cancer (IDC) patients may be easier to predict with the help of F-18-fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) scans, according to research published in the September issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. New data

WOMEN having surgery for breast cancer are up to three times more likely to experience severe pain in the first week after surgery if they already suffer from conditions such as arthritis, low back pain and migraine, according to a Cancer Research UK study.   • Breast cancer patients more lik

Breast cancer sufferers treated in major Australian cities have higher survival rates than women in inner regional areas, a study has shown. The study traced breast cancer deaths in 2007 with cases diagnosed from 1998 to 2005. The research, published in the Australian Health Review, found women in

Women who do two-and-a-half hours of housework or walking every day can cut their risk of developing breast cancer by 6 per cent, a study has found. Those who are extremely physically active can reduce their risk of breast cancer by 13 per cent - but they have to do six hours of housework per day,