Breast Cancer

Persistent chemotherapy-related amenorrhea was common and associated with worse long-term quality of life for premenopausal women with breast cancer, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

Significant advancements have been made in the de novo metastatic breast cancer space, including novel agents targeting the HER2 protein and others that enhance anti-estrogen therapies.

Aiming to address health disparities and inequities, the Biden administration announced the first-ever White House initiative to improve the way the United States approaches and funds women’s health research.

I love my job and helping patients at various stages in their lives. It is the most wonderful career that I can think of because I have a strong history of breast cancer and ovarian cancer in my family.

Individuals with insufficient levels of vitamin D prior to treatment with paclitaxel are at higher risk for developing chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy, study results showed.

City of Hope has opened a multicenter randomized trial to assess the safety and effectiveness of robotic-assisted, single-incision mastectomy for patients with early breast cancer.

For many breast cancer survivors, adjuvant endocrine therapy can substantially reduce the risk for recurrence.

Black and Hispanic women with early stage breast cancer in certain subgroups had worse survival rates compared with women of other races and ethnicities, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

Every October, there are pink ribbons everywhere for breast cancer awareness month.

Obesity was linked to an increased breast cancer recurrence risk among postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive early-stage breast cancer who were treated with aromatase inhibitors, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open.