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Advances in prevention, detection, and treatment are helping us win the battle against this deadly disease. Here, a progress report, plus up-to-the minute strategies and real-life advice to ease your fears and possibly save your life.

Whatever your pleasure -- beer, wine, or spirits -- more than three daily drinks ups your risk of breast cancer by 30%, researchers find.

When women quit breast cancer treatment early, they take a big risk.

Any major illness can strain close relationships. But for women with breast cancer, it can be an especially difficult emotional challenge.

U.S. breast cancer deaths fell 2.2% yearly from 1990 to 2004 but declined to a lesser extent in African-Americans, says the American Cancer Society.

The FDA has approved the osteoporosis drug Evista to help prevent breast cancer in certain postmenopausal women.

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Women who fail to take the breast cancer drug tamoxifen as prescribed may be placing themselves at substantially increased risk of dying, a study of more than 2,000 women shows.

African-American women are more likely than white women to develop aggressive breast tumors that are notoriously difficult to treat, U.S. researchers report.

Nearly half of women on certain anti-estrogen drugs that can help keep breast cancer from returning develop bone and joint problems -- and in 13%, the aches and pains are so severe that the women stop taking their medication, a new study suggests.

A brief hypnosis session before breast cancer surgery, along with medications, may cut patients pain and ease recovery, researchers report.

New research involving 100,000 women found no evidence of a link between consumption of the chemical acrylamide and breast cancer.

Breast cancer rates are down, and thats probably because fewer women are using hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in menopause, a new study shows.

Breast cancer death rates may be 39% higher for African-American women than white women with the same breast cancer stage, experts report.

MRI screening has been considered less sensitive than mammography for detecting precancerous cells in the breast which are confined to the milk ducts, but a new study suggests the opposite is true.

WebMD reports on how the many breast cancer survivors get on with the business of living -- and the lessons to be learned from first-wife hopeful Elizabeth Edwards¡¯ very public battle with her own recurrence.

New research adds to the evidence linking breast cancer increases and decreases to mammography and HRT usage.

Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts announced on air that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer.