The face of breast cancer is sometimes not what one expects. There’s a common perception that breast cancer only affects older women. But each year, about 2,400 men in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer.
Breast cancer treatment is complicated with many potential immediate and long-term risks, and the oncology nurse navigator is there to be your advocate.
If you’re scheduled to have a mastectomy or breast reconstruction surgery, here’s everything you need to know about setting up your home for a smooth recovery.
If you’ve received a diagnosis of invasive breast cancer, a doctor will test your cancer to determine its HER2 status. The test results will help inform which treatment options are best for your cancer.
Radiation therapy (radiotherapy) is a treatment that uses high-energy radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors.
Breast cancer comes with challenges and changes—going through treatment, dealing with side effects, and fluctuating energy levels for starters...
While pain is not a common side effect of chemotherapy, a person may experience pain during or after chemotherapy delivery.
When chemotherapy is your first treatment for cancer, it’s called ‘‘neoadjuvant therapy.’’ It’s often used for advanced breast cancer or large tumors that complicate surgery. But it has other equally important benefits.
NCI-funded researchers are working to advance our understanding of how to prevent, detect, and treat breast cancer. They are also looking at how to address disparities and improve quality of life for survivors of the disease.
The US Food and Drug Administration is alerting the public about certain cancers -- including squamous cell carcinoma and various lymphomas -- that have been reported in the scar tissue that forms around breast implants.