Monica Long had expected a routine appointment. But here she was sitting in her new oncologist’s office, and he was delivering deeply disturbing news.

Nearly a year earlier, in 2007, a pathologist at a small hospital in Cheboygan, Mich., had found the earliest stage of breast cancer from a biopsy. Extensive surgery followed, leaving Ms. Long’s right breast missing a golf-ball-size chunk.
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Weight lifting may help breast cancer survivors
Study reverses decades of advice telling patients to avoid strength training

For decades, many doctors warned that lifting weights or even heavy groceries could cause painful arm swelling. New research shows that weight training actually helps prevent this problem.

"How many generations of women have been told to avoid lifting heavy obje(...)

A pink ribbon symbolizes breast cancer awareness. The merging of ribbon and symbolism in the United States came about in two huge leaps. The first occurred in 1979 when a wife of a hostage who had been taken in Iran was inspired to tie yellow ribbons around the trees in her front yard, signaling her desire to see her husband come home again. Step two occurred 11 years later, when AIDS activis(...)

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Saturday, May 31, 2008

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Using ultrasound in addition to mammography helped doctors spot significantly more breast cancers in high-risk women compared with mammograms alone, but it also resulted in four times as many false alarms, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. "Mammograms saw only half o(...)

DALLAS – April 15, 2008 – Award-winning actress, Cynthia Nixon, best known for her role as Miranda on the long-running television series Sex and the City, joins Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, the world’s largest breast cancer advocacy organization, as an Ambassador. Nixon will share her personal experience with breast cancer, attend key events and reach millions through a series of TV and radi(...)