A troubling trend is emerging in breast cancer, medical experts say: Younger women are getting a disease that usually strikes around menopause. Meet two of those young women—actually, girls.

The Food and Drug Administration has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn’t extend patients’ lives, say congressional investigators.

New research has found that adults who are childhood cancer survivors are less likely to marry compared with their siblings and the general population. The side effects of treatment along with other factors play a role.

Mastectomy or lumpectomy? Breast reconstruction or not? What type of chemo? There are lots of questions when faced with a breast cancer diagnosis, and some advocates fear women aren’t being given all the options.

The Race for the Cure is the largest single fundraiser for the Komen Lowcountry Race for the Cure, which fights breast cancer in 13 counties along the South Carolina coast. It happens Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 9:10am on Daniel Island.

Breast cancer isn’t just a woman’s disease. Men also have breast tissue that can undergo cancerous changes. While women are about 100 times more likely to get breast cancer, any man can develop breast cancer. Male breast cancer is most common between the ages of 60 and 70.

Breast cancer isn’t just a woman’s disease. Men also have breast tissue that can undergo cancerous changes. While women are about 100 times more likely to get breast cancer, any man can develop breast cancer. Male breast cancer is most common between the ages of 60 and 70.

Companies are pushing pink this October to raise awareness and money for breast cancer research, but how much of what you spend is really going to fight the deadly disease?

For cancer patients, nutrition is important, but many find that they are too tired to cook, nauseated to eat or the food tastes bad. A new cookbook, “What to Eat During Cancer Treatment” offers options.

Surviving cancer was a life-changing experience for these top cancer experts, even though they’d spent their careers helping patients fight the illness — but it wasn’t until they were the patients that they learned a lot about what it really takes to keep yourself healthy.

It might now be Fall but those sunburns you received from the summer and even those sunburns from years ago might have a impact on your health later in life.

20 Marines, or sons of Marines were based at or lived at Camp Lejeune between the 1960s and the 1980s. They all have had breast cancer and they blame their time at Camp Lejeune, where records show drinking water was contaminated with high levels of toxic chemicals for three decades.

According to new research, cancer patients whose tumors are targeted with heat treatment as well as chemotherapy are more likely to stay alive and cancer-free for longer than those who receive only chemotherapy

For women diagnosed with breast cancer—chemotherapy can be one of the biggest challenges. But a new test is helping more women avoid chemo, and it’s helping others gain confidence to take on the difficult treatment.

Aside from everyday functions of chewing, swallowing, talking, tasting and showing dissatisfaction, the tongue has new uses such as steering wheelchairs and helping blind people see.