Experts agree that for most breast cancer cases, chemotherapy is not the first treatment of choice. But for those for whom it is appropriate, it can provide effective, long term results.
Chemotherapy consists of using drugs to combat cancer. With the increasing sophistication of pharmacology, those drugs are safer, more effective and more targeted, with fewer [...]

Radiation therapy remains one of the most common tools for breast cancer treatment, but it has been refined considerably over the years.
Radiation therapy comes in two basic types: internal or external.
External radiation treatments consist of an energetic, highly focused beam used to destroy cancer cells and surrounding tissue. Though the beam is invisible to the [...]

The prospect of surgery is never pleasant. But fortunately, breast cancer surgery today is more targeted than in years past. That leads to less scarring and quicker recovery, at the same time providing an effective treatment to lower the odds of recurrence.
Diagnostic tools are more precise and the disease is better understood. Traditional options still [...]

About 1 in 12 women will contract breast cancer some time during their life, with the odds increasing as they age. But with modern medicine, treatment can be relatively simple and effective. Key to that success, though, is early detection. A regular mammogram is one traditional and still highly useful tool to do so.
A mammogram [...]

A diagnosis of breast cancer can make you feel defenseless, afraid, no, terrified.  With the many advances of made in early detection and new, modern therapy, the survival rate for women with breast cancer is 97 percent.  If the cancer is found in later stages, the survival rate is still 87 percent.  Breast cancer is [...]