Breast
The Forgotten Developer of Tamoxifen, a Lifesaving Breast Cancer Therapy
In the early 1960s chemist Dora Richardson synthesized a chemical compound that became one of the most important drugs to…
Read More »How Society’s Beauty Standards Could Impact Breast Cancer Outcomes
This podcast is part of “Women’s Health,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Organon.…
Read More »Doctors no longer recommend ‘self-checks’ for breast cancer — here’s what to know
Nearly four years ago, Becca Brown, a 41-year-old resident of Burlington, Vermont, noticed a grape-size lump on the side of…
Read More »What Sex After Breast Cancer Is Really Like
On Dec. 2, 2015, Erin Burnett was two days out from her wedding and existing in the buzzy state of…
Read More »How to Deal With Scanxiety as a Breast Cancer Patient
When Ali Heitz arrived at the hospital for her check-up scan, exactly one year post-breast cancer diagnosis, she thought she…
Read More »What Is a Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Score?
When people consider breast cancer screening, they likely think about mammograms, and maybe genetic testing. But increasingly, doctors are suggesting…
Read More »What Is Breast Density? MDs Explain
Breast density is a hot topic in women’s health right now thanks to a new rule from the Food and…
Read More »Why breast cancer spreads to bone
Researchers from Tampere University, Finland, and Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey, have developed an in vitro cancer model to investigate…
Read More »Excess Body Fat Strongly Linked to Hormone-Positive Breast Cancers
An estimated 40 percent of postmenopausal hormone-positive breast cancers are linked to excess body fat, a new Spanish study found.…
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