Breast Cancer News
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Chemicals in personal care products cause harmful effects in breast cancer cells from Black women
A new City of Hope study shows that endocrine-disrupting chemicals called parabens have an outsized effect on breast cancer risk in Black women compared to white women

Helpful Hair Products to Use During and After Chemo
From going bald to dealing with awkward hair regrowth, survivors share their favorite chemo-related hair loss products.

Cancer Screening Tests That May Help Detect Cancer Earlier
Catching a cancer early, before it has had a chance to spread, can make an enormous difference in your odds of surviving the disease.

Breast Cancer and Heart Health
Women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer are at greater risk for developing high blood pressure and diabetes, common risk factors for heart disease.

Breast Cancer Metastasis Sites: Most Common, Symptoms & More
Below, we’ll explore more about metastatic breast cancer and the most common areas where it’s detected. Then, we’ll cover how this type of cancer is diagnosed and treated, plus steps you can take to prevent it.

Ozone therapy for breast cancer: Does it work?
Ozone therapy delivers ozone into the body with the aim of increasing oxygen levels and fighting cancer cells.

Black With Breast Cancer: ‘My Doctor Didn’t Believe I Was in Pain’
When an allergic reaction sent Ashadee Miller to the hospital, her oncologist accused her of drug-seeking behavior.

‘Unexpected pattern’: Breast cancer may spread during sleep
Now, a team from ETH Zurich, the University Hospital Basel and the University of Basel has found that CTCs spread and divide much faster during sleep than during waking hours.

After DCIS, About One in Five Invasive Breast Cancers Unrelated to Original DCIS
The study included samples of DCIS lesions from 129 women. Overall, 95 of the women were later diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and 34 of the women were later diagnosed with a second DCIS. All the recurrences — both invasive and DCIS — were in the same breast as...
Understanding Your Options for Breast Forms
Some women who go flat want to look like they have breasts in certain situations, so they wear breast forms (or breast prostheses).

Bayer-Monsanto’s Sinister Seventeen17: Terrible and Toxic Products from Bayer and Monsanto
Many of these products have been linked to cancer in humans

Mastectomy: What to Expect
Learn what you can expect on the day of the mastectomy surgery and during the recovery period in the weeks following the surgery.

Using marijuana for breast cancer: How it works, safety, and benefits
People with breast cancer may use marijuana, also called cannabis, to manage symptoms and counteract treatment side effects.

Study suggests an underripe banana a day lowers risk of a range of cancers
“We found that resistant starch reduces a range of cancers by over 60 percent,” says John Mathers, professor of Human Nutrition at Newcastle University.

Targeted Therapy: Breakthrough Treatments for Metastatic Breast Cancer
Researchers have discovered certain characteristics that help cancer cells (or other cells near them) grow and thrive. This has led to the development of drugs that “target” these differences from normal cells, a class known as targeted therapy.