July 8 (UPI) -- Older women carrying excess weight have a higher risk of a life-threatening double-whammy, a new study says.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Breast cancer treatment might offer protection against Alzheimer's disease, with a study of 70,000 survivors showing lower ...

Women with preeclampsia in their first pregnancy had a lower risk of developing breast, cervical, and lung cancer later in ...

A new breast cancer vaccine shows significant promise in preventing and treating the disease, particularly triple-negative ...

More information: Julia D. Ransohoff et al, Endocrine Therapy Interruption, Resumption, and Outcomes Associated With Pregnancy After Breast Cancer, JAMA Oncology (2025). DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol ...

More of the women who became pregnant after the pregnancy when they were diagnosed had had a hormone receptor−negative (HR−) cancer (79%) compared with those without a subsequent pregnancy (60 ...

A Stanford Medicine study finds only 32% of women resume breast cancer treatment after pausing for pregnancy, despite guidelines recommending it. The study links low adherence rates to higher cancer ...

Former Bachelorette Katie Thurston, who is currently battling stage four metastatic breast cancer, shared the positive news that her tumors are shrinking five months after being diagnosed.

Ahead of the WNBA All-Star Weekend, the Komen Tissue Bank is collecting healthy breast tissue samples from 500 women ...