Radiation therapy is regularly recommended for breast cancer patients as part of the breast cancer therapy regimen. Many women are not finishing this last step.

Because her mother had ovarian cancer, actress, director and humanitarian Angelina Jolie underwent genetic testing. Should you? The United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued its latest recommendations.

Medications called aromatase inhibitors are sometimes given to women who’ve been treated for hormone sensitive breast cancer. These medicines have a number of side effects, including hot flashes and joint stiffness and pain.

Most breast cancers are fueled by the hormone estrogen, and a number of medications are made to block the production of estrogen. A recent trial assessed one such medication in treating advanced breast cancer.

Postmenopausal women can become more at risk for breast cancer if they are overweight. An easy dietary change may help reduce that risk by lowering the chances of obesity.

Last Spring, Angelina Jolie announced she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy because she had a rare genetic risk. Did this major media story improve breast cancer risk awareness?

Triple-negative breast cancer is a fast-growing form of the disease that tends to return (recur). But a fresh therapeutic approach was found to be capable of eliminating the disease altogether.

For years, postmenopausal breast cancer survivors have been treated with medications that block estrogen production to reduce the risk of cancer returning. One medication may also prevent the disease from developing at all.

A medication that treats a type of leukemia targets a protein that’s involved in the spread of breast cancer. Combining this medication with a standard breast cancer therapy helped some patients live longer.

Aromatase inhibitors (AI) are medications that block production of estrogen, the hormone that feeds most breast cancers.