Researchers have developed a novel vaccine that stimulates the immune system to seek out and destroy breast cancer cells.

Breastfeeding can offset the increased risk of breast cancer faced by women who have their first baby after they turn 25, new research suggests.

Four genes apparently gang up to help breast cancer spread to the lungs, scientists report in Nature.

Hispanic women get more aggressive breast cancers than non-Hispanic white women, an analysis of Kaiser Permanente data shows.

Radiologists are increasingly relying on computers to help them read screening mammograms, but the practice has not improved the detection of invasive breast cancer, a new study shows.

U.S. breast cancer deaths fell 24% for women diagnosed from 1990-2003, experts say in Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Both her mother and her father wrestled with breast cancer. So former anchorwoman Rene Syler made one of the most difficult -- and strangely exhilarating -- decisions of her life.

The American Cancer Society now says women at high risk of breast cancer -- less than 1 in 50 U.S. women -- should get yearly breast MRIs.

Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of presidential candidate John Edwards, announced Thursday that her breast cancer, originally diagnosed in 2004, has returned.

There is more evidence linking high-fat diets to a modest increase in breast cancer risk among older women. But researchers agree that more study is needed.

A diet rich in estrogen-like compounds found in flaxseed, tea, and many plants may help curb breast cancer after menopause.

The FDA has approved Tykerb, a new drug to treat some cases of advanced breast cancer in patients who have tried other treatments.

Exercise may help prevent breast cancer, and help those who do get it cope, two new studies show.

The FDA has approved a gene-based breast cancer test that helps tell early-stage breast cancer patients whether they need chemotherapy after surgery.

There may be a small leukemia risk from drugs used to boost immunity during cancer chemotherapy, a study suggests.

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Women who choose their own surgeon and hospital get better breast cancer care than those who rely on doctor or health plan referrals, a new survey suggests.

One year of Herceptin after surgery and chemotherapy ups two-year breast cancer survival, an international study shows.

A combination of breast cancerbreast cancer drugs -- Tykerb and Xeloda -- slows metastatic breast cancercancer after Herceptin finally fails.

Tamoxifen cuts the risk of breast cancer in some women by about a third, a new study confirms, and the benefit persists even after treatment ends.