Research conducted here at Johns Hopkins has confirmed that removing both ovaries (a double oophorectomy) as a way to treat or reduce a woman's risk of breast and/or ovarian cancer is not
For some time now, we've known that breast-cancer patients who receive chemotherapy have trouble with their thought processes during and after this treatment.
The first in an occasional series.
Who would have ever guessed that a drug commonly used for diabetes would turn out to be something that might reduce cancer risk?
It’s been suspected for some time that when a female fetus is exposed in utero to DES (the first synthetic form of estrogen)--because her mother happened to be prescribed this drug during pregnancy
Virtually every woman on this earth has experienced pain caused by her breasts.
For the past three decades, researchers have known that alcohol is what's called a carcinogenic agent to people. That is, it probably contributes to cancer.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. You will no doubt be seeing lots of slogans and messages promoting breast health, including mammography.
Those of you with hereditary breast cancer (confirmed by the finding that you carry a breast-cancer gene), please listen up.
You've been tested for breast cancer genes and the test comes back negative. So is it time to celebrate?
Breasts remain a focal point for men’s eyes and teenage girls’ minds.
It shouldn’t, but it does. Elderly patients risk treatment discrimination, which has been confirmed in a research study presented September 24, 2011, at a cancer congress in Stockholm.
I was contacted by ABC News last week, who posed this question to me: Over the last 15 years, celebrities and public figures have “gone public” about their diagnoses of breast cancer. Do you thi
I pose this weighty question twice a year, when I conduct my regular semi-annual retreats for patients with metastatic breast cancer.
On the last day of October, it's time for reflection. Throughout the month, it's hard to open a woman's magazine, listen to the radio, or watch TV without being greeted with a public service anno
For some time now, researchers have suspected that there might be a link between the density of a breast’s tissues and the development of cancer in that breast.
Little research has been done to date that has looked at how a pregnant woman's health and wellbeing (particularly as these are influenced by what a mother-to-be eats) might affect her childr
It isn't widely known, but 1 percent of the individuals diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the U.S. are men.
There was quite a scare in the early 1990s about silicone-filled implants, and then another one in 2006.
Mortality from breast cancer has continued to decline steadily over the past five years, and that's wonderful.
