It's when cancer spreads that patients are in the greatest danger. Thinking out of the box, scientists have narrowed their sights on a protein that could help nip metastasis in the bud.

Obesity is a risk factor for many diseases. This is especially true in the case of breast cancer. Researchers are showing that obesity complicates the course of disease.

Postmenopausal breast cancer patients are often prescribed aromatase inhibitors after primary treatment to reduce the risks of disease recurrence. These drugs can cause bone density loss, though.

While white women in the United States are diagnosed more frequently with breast cancer, women of color are more likely to die of the disease. New research confirms this.

Brachytherapy places small radioactive sources into the breast cancer tumor bed to kill off any cells that remain after a lumpectomy. It's faster than standard whole-breast radiation therapy. This method may have some serious drawbacks, though.

You've probably heard that obesity is a risk factor for breast cancer. Now researchers are finding diabetes is another. And there are other things that both increase and decrease a woman's risk of getting breast cancer.

Prostate cancer treatment often involves hormone-blocking therapy. Some studies have suggested this treatment has dangerous side effects. New research, though, says men need not worry.

Controversy has swirled around when to start mammography and how often to have these breast cancer screenings. New research says what's important is for women just to have them done.

There's a huge push to find new and different uses for existing drugs. New research shows that a class of drugs used to treat seizures may be therapeutic in a deadly type of melanoma that affects the eyes.

Glioblastoma - the most aggressive form of brain cancer - doesn't appear as a distinct mass. The tumors are made up of the brain tissue itself. New technology is helping surgeons literally see the difference between diseased and healthy tissue.