Breast Cancer News

Markham - Each May, The Cure Foundation hosts its National Denim Day to raise funds for the fight against breast cancer. This year, Aloft Vaughan Mills hotel participates in fundraising initiatives throughout the month.

Los Angeles - On Tuesday, one of Hollywood's most beautiful, glamorous stars had both her breasts removed. This is a procedure that was once thought of as "disgusting," but new approaches are changing the way women can treat or prevent cancer.

A report indicates that the number of women in the U.K. under the age of 50 diagnosed with breast cancer each year has reached the 10,000 cases for the first time.

Angelina Jolie has announced she has had a preventive double mastectomy because doctors estimated that she had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer.

Toronto - For a woman who has a lump in her breast waiting to know if she's in the fight of her life can be almost as difficult as hearing that she has cancer.

In 2009, after her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent surgery, then 22 years-old Yael Cohen decided to start a non-profit organization called F*ck Cancer.

Sarasota - Britney Wegner snared the Google 2012 Science Fair's top prize by creating an app called Could4cancer that has a 99.1 accuracy for predicting malignant tumors in the human breast which may help millions of men and women defeat this dangerous disease.

A new study released Wednesday found that lung cancer will surpass breast cancer as the top cause of cancer deaths in European women.

A new study suggest that postmenopausal women who survive breast cancer are at increased risk for developing diabetes. The study recommends that women who have had breast cancer should be screened for the disease more closely.

A research team from UCLA Women’s Cancer Research Program have reported a four-fold increase in tumor suppression times in women with certain breast cancer.