When faced with breast cancer in one breast, some women carrying the breast cancer gene have elected to have the other breast removed, too. Does this decision increase their odds of survival?

If you get an annual mammogram, you are reducing your risk of dying from breast cancer, right? Maybe not, say the authors of a new study challenging this assumption.

There are so many diseases and health conditions associated with smoking; the habit is addictive and deadly. Researchers may have added yet another disease to this growing list.

About one in 10 breast biopsies detect some type of breast tissue abnormality. Researchers have discovered two different tissue changes that tended to increase breast cancer risks in the same way.

Many breast cancer survivors report decreases in energy that interfere with daily activities. Yoga can be a gentle exercise that could boost energy and reduce fatigue in these survivors.

The vast majority of children who develop Hodgkin lymphoma beat the blood cancer after treatment, which includes powerful radiation. A new study looked at how that therapy affected young patients later in life.

Your health care provider may emphasize the importance of exercise, but exactly how important is physical activity for staying healthy?

Many more women undergo annual mammograms than are diagnosed with breast cancer, and the screening comes with potential risks.

Breast cancer patients with triple negative tumors may be harder to treat, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that radical surgery is needed.

Once the treatment for cancer is completed, the pain should be over, right? Not so for many breast cancer patients, according to the authors of a new European study.