Breast Cancer

Breast cancer is cancer that forms in tissues of the breast, usually the ducts (tubes that carry milk to the nipple) and lobules (glands that make milk). It occurs in both men and women, although male breast cancer is rare.

HER-2 Positive Breast Cancer

Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is a gene that can play an important role in the development of some types of breast cancer. This gene is also sometimes referred to as Erc-B2 receptor tyrosine kinase 2 (ERBB2). This gene is involved in the production of HER2 proteins, which are present on breast cells as receptors to control the growth, division, and repair of the cells.

What Does a Sentinel Node Biopsy Involve?

Radial Scar of the Breast

Breast Cancer Awareness

The Importance of Hormone Status in Breast Cancer: A Guide to Hormone Dependent Breast Cancer (HDBC)

History of Breast Cancer

Sentinel Lymph Nodes

Breast Cancer Symptoms

Treating Breast Cancer Using Antibiotics

Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Types of Breast Cancer

A Guide to Checking your Breasts for Lumps

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Living with Breast Cancer

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What is Invasive Ductal Breast Cancer?

Gail Model (Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool)

What is Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS)?

Treating Breast Oil Cysts

Genetics of Breast Cancer

Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Causes

What is Breast Cancer?

Breast Cancer Prognosis

Intraductal Papilloma - Benign Tumors of the Breast

Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer Versus X-Ray Mammograms

What Does a Quadrantectomy Involve?

What is the BRCA1 Gene?

What is the BRCA2 Gene?

Breast Cancer Society and Culture

Microwave Imaging for Breast Cancer: Procedure

Surgery for Breast Cancer

What is a Mammary Gland?

What is Metastatic Breast Cancer?

PARP Inhibitors For Hard-To-Treat Cancers

Breast Cancer Screening

Radial Scar Diagnosis and Management

Breast Cancer Epidemiology

Post-Mastectomy Pain

Axillary Lymph Nodes and Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Management

What is the HER2 Gene?

Thermography versus Mammography: Which is Best?

Axillary Sampling and Sentinel Node Biopsy Comparison

Hormone Receptor Positive Breast Cancer

Detecting breast cancer in dense breasts

What is Triple Negative Breast Cancer?

Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Pathophysiology

What is Breast Reconstruction?

Familial Breast Cancer

Preventing Breast Cancer

What are Aromatase Inhibitors?

Microcalcifications in Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer Classification

Latest Breast Cancer News and Research

New ruthenium-based active agent enables cancer treatment in oxygen-depleted tumors

Most tumors grow so rapidly that vascular growth cannot keep up, and oxygen-depleted areas form within them. A new active agent could make it possible to treat them with photodynamic therapy.

7 Apr 2026

Dual perspective AI model achieves high accuracy in early lung cancer diagnosis

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, accounting for nearly one in five cancer deaths - around 1.8 million lives lost each year.

7 Apr 2026

World Health Day 2026: WHO urges global collaboration and science for better health

The World Health Organization (WHO) today calls on people everywhere to renew their commitment to working together and supporting science as the twin engines driving better health, under the World Health Day 2026 theme: "Together for health. Stand with science."

6 Apr 2026

New technique can simultaneously treat lung cancer and muscle-wasting condition

Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a technique for simultaneously treating lung cancer and a serious muscle-wasting condition that often accompanies it.

6 Apr 2026

New 3D printing method delivers cancer drugs directly to tumors

University of Mississippi research offers hope that cancer drug therapies packaged in 3D-printed carriers could deliver medication directly to tumors while reducing many of the side effects that cancer patients endure.

6 Apr 2026

New target identified to overcome resistance in neuroendocrine tumors

Neuroendocrine cells are unique in their ability to act both as nerve cells and hormone-making cells.

6 Apr 2026

Princeton researchers reveal new links between high-fat diets and aggressive breast cancer

Princeton researchers have revealed new links between high-fat diets and aggressive breast cancer, demonstrating the important role fat plays in making some cancers more invasive.

6 Apr 2026

Study finds increasing rates of therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia

Some therapies used to treat cancer may increase the risk of later developing cancers that affect the blood.

6 Apr 2026

Study finds gaps in preventive care for women with diabetes

Physicians are less likely to provide preventive care such as conception counseling and some cancer screenings to women with diabetes than they do for women without the disease, a UCLA-led study suggests.

3 Apr 2026

Advances in nanomedicine improve anthelmintic drug delivery and effectiveness

Announcing a new article publication in BIO Integration. According to World Health Organization (WHO) reports, parasitic infections substantially affect the world's population and are responsible for more than 16 million annual deaths in developing countries.

2 Apr 2026

Oral molecule prevents kidney stones and restores survival in mice

Scientists at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging have shown that an orally administered small molecule, N-propargylglycine (N-PPG), can completely prevent the formation of calcium oxalate kidney stones, protect against kidney failure, and fully restore normal survival in a mouse model of Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 2 (PH2), a rare and currently untreatable genetic disorder that causes progressive kidney failure in infants and young adults.

2 Apr 2026

NCCN grants funding to five oncology leaders of the future

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)-an alliance of leading cancer centers-announces the 2026 recipients for the annual NCCN Foundation® Young Investigator Awards.

2 Apr 2026

Trump’s one big beautiful bill act darkens outlook for government-backed clinics

Bluestem Health, a clinic that serves low-income and uninsured patients in Lincoln, Nebraska, has lost money for the last two years.

1 Apr 2026

Aging reshapes breast tissue creating environment favorable for cancer

Scientists have created the most detailed map to date, comprised of over 3 million cells, showing how breast tissue changes as women age – including dramatic changes during menopause.

31 Mar 2026

Innate immunity genes may influence earlier breast cancer onset in BRCA1 carriers

Damaging variants in genes involved in a rapid immune response (innate immunity) are significantly linked to earlier breast cancer onset in carriers of the harmful BRCA1 genetic mutation, reveal preliminary findings published online in the Journal of Medical Genetics.

31 Mar 2026