Although annual mammograms are strongly recommended and are often the best way to detect breast cancer, additional screening methods may sometimes be necessary, especially for women with dense breast tissue, family history or other risk factors. Magnetic Resonance Imaging: MRI uses magnets and radio...

For researchers looking at what have become known as the “Jewish breast cancer genes,” much of the last decade has been spent identifying women who have the gene mutations and finding medical procedures to battle the breast and ovarian cancers that result. Now many of the same scientists are striking...

Ask women what’s the most common cause of breast cancer and most will say heredity. Unfortunately, heredity accounts for about 5% of all cases of breast cancer.  Lifestyle choices are more often to blame. One often-overlooked contributor to the development of breast cancer is alcohol intake, including...

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is a non-profit organization, founded in 1964, with overarching goals of improving cancer care and prevention and ensuring that all patients with cancer receive care of the highest quality.

The Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust exists to find a cure for childhood and adult Brain Tumours through funding research and to offer support, hope and information to patients and their caregivers. The Samantha Dickson Brain Tumour Trust was registered with the Charity Commission by Samantha’s...

What if a blood test or biopsy could predict if a cancer therapy will either help cure you or make you feel worse? Tests like these, based on genes, proteins or other “molecular markers” may someday do just that for people battling colon, lung and pancreatic tumors, scientists reported at...

Everybody has cancer cells moving through their bodies. So why doesn’t everybody get sick, or diagnosed with this dreadful disease? There are five forms of cancer. The most common one is Carcinoma, which originates in the skin, or in glandular tissue such as the breast and prostate gland. Another...

Carol Jones of Britton and Cleo Symens of Claremont talk a lot about hope; hope for those diagnosed with cancer, hope for those who have survived the disease, and hope for a cure. In the past nine years they have spearheaded an effort that has come up with over a half million dollars in Marshall County...

Ecancer medical science is the open access cancer journal founded by the European Institute of Oncology in Milan.  It is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of research relating to cancer, including molecular biology, genetics, pathophysiology, epidemiology,...

Cancer during pregnancy is not common, occurring in about 1 out of 1,000 pregnancies, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Peggy Noval was 39 years old and in her ninth month of pregnancy when she was diagnosed this year with advanced breast cancer. With her husband, Keith, and an...