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New research suggests that long-term use of any type of hormones to ease menopause symptoms can raise a women's risk of breast cancer.

French health authorities are considering whether to suggest that an estimated 30,000 women in France get their breast implants removed, amid warnings by leading doctors about the risks of rupture and possible cancer....

If you want the FDA to approve more innovative, new drugs based on promising but early clinical results, you have to give the FDA a way to revoke those approvals later on, should larger trials prove that those drugs aren't as safe or effective as they first seemed. This is why the FDA should be congratulated for the way it has handled the Avastin breast cancer saga, and why I hope we will see the FDA handle more cases like this one, not less.

Whether sipping beer, wine or whiskey, women who drink just three alcoholic beverages a week face slightly higher chances for developing breast cancer compared with teetotalers, a study of more than 100,000 U.S. nurses found.

John Edwards walked his daughter Cate, 29, down the aisle today as she married her Princeton University sweetheart, Trevor Upham, 30. A 4 p.m. ceremony at United Methodist Church was followed by a reception on the lawn at the Edwards' home, reports People.com. An altar candle in the church was lit in memory of Cate's mom, Elizabeth Edwards, who died 10 months ago from breast cancer. "We want this to be really happy and joyous and that's what my mother would want," Cate, 29, told People in the days before the wedding.

Raymond Johnson was due for some good news. Earlier this month, he was denied Medicaid coverage after being diagnosed with breast cancer. But he just got the call he was waiting for: South Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services is granting him coverage, after all.

The breast cancer drug Herceptin increases the risk of heart problems in elderly patients, especially those with a history of heart disease and/or ...

Federal health regulators have concerns about bladder and breast cancer seen in patients taking an experimental diabetes pill from Bristol-Myers ...

The best-selling cancer drug in the world comes under federal scrutiny as drugmaker Roche makes a last-ditch effort to keep Avastin approved ...

The longest-running breast cancer screening study ever conducted has shown that regular mammograms prevent deaths from breast cancer, and the number of lives saved increases over time, an international research team said on Tuesday.