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Cancer i/ˈkænsər/, known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a broad group of various diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and

More young women are being diagnosed with advanced, metastatic breast cancer than were three decades ago, a new study suggests – although the overall rate of cancers in that

Recently, a survey of three decades of screening published in November in The New England Journal of Medicine found that mammography’s impact is decidedly mixed:

Are mammograms useless? That’s just one of the turn-your-world-upside-down questions raised in a provocative and personal New York Times Magazine piece about the fight against breast cancer, published online

Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among American women between the age of 40-55, and the high prevalence has spawned a very lucrative industry;

According to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, 200,000 new cases will be diagnosed each year in the U.S. making it three times more common than

Family practitioners, obstetrician-gynecologists, and internists are gatekeeper physicians with the first professional opportunity to detect breast cancer. When they fail, the results can be fatal.