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Google's AI Bested Doctors in Detecting Breast Cancer in Mammograms

By Alice Park

New Study Suggests Women With Dense Breast Tissue May Benefit From Regular MRIs

By Alice Park

I Hadn't Planned to Be the Subject of My Own Photos. Then I Was Diagnosed With Breast Cancer at 29

By Alyona Kochetkova

Why the Women Most Likely to Die of Breast Cancer Have Gotten the Least Attention

By Kate Pickert
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Promising Blood Test Could Help to Predict Breast Cancer Recurrence

Researchers developed a customized blood test that may soon direct breast cancer patients to more personalized and effective treatments

By Alice Park

Birth Control Pills May Help Prevent Some Cancers

A new study looks at how oral contraceptives affect cancer risk

By Alice Park

Working the Night Shift Could Raise Your Cancer Risk

Working the night shift is linked to a number of health issues, from heart disease to obesity to sleep disorders—and even cancer. Now, in a new report, researchers in China have found that women who...

By Alice Park

Cancer Deaths Have Dropped 26% in Recent Years

Since 1991, the cancer death rate has dropped by 26%, according to the latest data from the American Cancer Society (ACS). That decline represents nearly 2.4 million lives saved from cancer. The decreasing death rate...

By Alice Park

Here's a Promising Way to Treat Pain in Breast Cancer Treatment

Every year, tens of thousands of breast cancer survivors are prescribed aromatase inhibitors—medications recommended for up to ten years to protect against a recurrence of the disease. But these drugs can cause side effects, including...

By Amanda MacMillan

Hormonal Birth Control Is Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer

Hormone-based contraceptives are linked to a higher risk of breast cancer, according to a new study

By Alice Park

It's Time to End Mammograms, Some Experts Say

Prevention is the best medicine, doctors say, and nowhere is that truer than in cancer. Picking up early signs of disease is the best way to prevent cancer from taking root, so doctors have urged...

By Alice Park

We’ve Got the Wrong Idea About ‘Processed Food‘

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By The Aspen Institute

40% of Cancers Are Linked to Being Overweight

The rate of new cancer cases has decreased in the United States since the 1990s. But increases in overweight- and obesity-related cancers—which now account for 40% of all U.S. cancers—are likely slowing that progress, according...

By Amanda MacMillan

Breast Cancer Deaths Drop Nearly 40% In the U.S.

Deaths from breast cancer continued to decline, dropping by nearly 40% from 1989 to 2015

By Alice Park

Gaming Makes People Better Learners

These are today's best ideas

By The Aspen Institute

Here’s When Women Should Be Screened for Breast Cancer

There’s been a lot of back and forth in recent years over mammogram screening to prevent breast cancer, and major health groups still disagree. Here’s what the controversy is all about

By Alice Park

6 Surprising Things That May Improve Breast Cancer Treatment

Being diagnosed with breast cancer can make a person feel powerless, but there are some things women can do to potentially improve how they feel throughout the process. Here are some strategies recommended by experts—and...

By Alexandra Sifferlin

I Treated Breast Cancer for Years as a Doctor. Then I Was Diagnosed

I was a cancer expert long before I was a patient: in control, passionate about my work and invulnerable. Yet all of this would change with one phone call. It was a morning like many...

By Pamela Munster

Yoga Improves Sleep in People Being Treated For Cancer

People receiving chemotherapy are often plagued by insomnia at night and excessive drowsiness during the day. But a new study in the journal Cancer suggests that yoga can help. Breast cancer patients in the study...

By Amanda MacMillan

Why More Women Are Getting a Double Mastectomy

Recent research has shown that despite having more treatment options, women with cancer in one breast are increasingly choosing to remove both breasts—even though experts in the field say the procedure is not necessarily accompanied...

By Alexandra Sifferlin
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