Late motherhood and major weight gain after 20 may triple breast cancer risk, warns study conducted on over 48,000 women ...

New research out of London suggests that human breast cells accumulate mutations as women age — and pregnancy can influence this process. The Imperial College London study, published Wednesday ...

A study observing changes in healthy breast cells may explain why breast cancer might develop after pregnancy. The cell-based study has helped begin to disentangle the complex relationship between ...

Bianchi felt a lump, which turned out to be breast cancer, when her firstborn, Mia, was 18 months old. Doctors advised against another pregnancy, but she learned of the research and signed up.

Long Island is home to one of the nation’s known breast cancer clusters — areas with higher-than-average breast cancer rates.

Among younger women with breast cancer, it may be possible for many to have a baby after their diagnosis thanks to advances in breast cancer care, new research suggests.. In a study of about 200 ...

Among 282 BRCA carriers in the cohort diagnosed with breast cancer during pregnancy, 68 (24.1%) had had a subsequent pregnancy at a median 7 years of follow-up.

For women with early-stage breast cancer, breast-conserving therapy (BCT) including radiation therapy (RT) leads to progressive reduction in breast size over time, reports a study in the April ...

“They don’t want to hear from breast cancer again, but they also don’t want to put their lives on hold,” she said. The study followed 516 women after surgery for early-stage cancer.