Breast Cancer Fight

To register online, sign up as an individual or with a team. All registration fees include the official Komen Race for the Cure T-shirt and race bib. In addition, breast cancer survivors will receive a pink survivor T-shirt, hat and race bib along with the ...  

Women recovering from breast cancer typically don't spend their weekends standing in a river, knee-deep in water, casting for fish. But a group of breast cancer survivors from Minnesota and Wisconsin will do just that this weekend, thanks to an ...  

A 64-year-old woman named J.G. was diagnosed with a right side, node-negative, HER2-positive, hormone-negative (stage I) breast cancer about eight years ago. Following lumpectomy and sentinel node biopsy, she was referred to a medical oncologist ...  

#facebook Yo, remember that time TIME had a boob on its cover (an appealing, attractive, child-rearing boob, natch) and it was as ubiquitous on Facebook as that "You've Been Hit By The __ Truck" thing on people's walls in 2007, and Forbes reported that Facebook was claiming some bullshitty loophole like it was OK because the kid was serving as "a human pastie"? Well, they've censored yet another...  

May is Brain Cancer Awareness Month, yet all I hear about in the Tri-Cities is breast cancer. I'm not against supporting breast cancer awareness, but October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, not every month of the year. We have young and old ...  

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides an indication of a breast tumor's response to pre-surgical chemotherapy significantly earlier than possible through clinical examination, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology. Women with breast cancer often undergo chemotherapy prior to surgery. Research has shown that women who receive this treatment, known as neoadjuvant chemotherapy, are more likely to achieve breast...  

A breast cancer vaccine already shown to elicit a powerful immune response in women with varying levels of HER2 expression has the ability to improve recurrence rates and is well tolerated in an adjuvant setting, according to new research from a clinical trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The findings will be presented on Monday, June 4 in an oral presentation at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the...  

by Betsy Shaw posted in Mom Stories Take a deep breath. Here we go again. The latest in a long line of questionable Facebook photo censorship cases involves a 40- year-old breast cancer survivor, Joanne Jackson, whose professional photographs, taken after she underwent a mastectomy, were removed for being "offensive." Jackson, a mother of two,...... Want to get the full story? Click on the headline above. And thanks for reading the BabyCenter...  

Congratulations on being a breast cancer survivor! Breast cancer affects one in approximately eight women in America and because of improved surveillance and treatment there are more than 2.5 million breast cancer survivors in the United States. I can not overemphasize the importance of talking to your doctor about self-examinations and mammograms for routine surveillance, which leads to early detection of breast cancers. Breast cancer does...  

Medical Tactile, Inc. (MTI), with the support of The Pre-Mammogram Foundation and Qualcomm Incorporated, today announced that they have developed a pre-commercial SureTouch Wireless system that uses 3G-enabled tactile sensor technology for breast cancer screening.  

How often should you have a mammogram?Many women are confused about how often they should have mammograms, because recommendations from various health organizations differ. The most important of these discrepancies concerns whether women who are between the ages of 40 to 50 and at average risk of breast cancer should have mammogram screenings at all.Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer among women in the United States, not...  

WHO MAY BE AFFECTED? Women with breast cancer who have a lumpectomy, sometimes called a partial mastectomy, which removes the tumor and some surrounding tissue but leaves the rest of the breast intact. For subsequent radiation, brachytherapy irradiates ...  

Women on Long Island who don't have insurance or who are underinsured may be able to take advantage of free mammograms at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Commack. The Center has contracted with the New York State Cancer Services Program (CSP) of Western Suffolk County to provide breast cancer screening at no cost to patients who are uninsured or underinsured and meet certain eligibility criteria.  

My name is Georgianna Diaz and I am a 10-year breast cancer survivor. My mother had breast cancer and I was very diligent about getting my yearly mammogram. When I went for my appointment in March 2002, I was confident everything would be normal ...  

Serra Little League umpires sported pink uniforms during games this past week as part of the second annual 'Blues for Pink' breast cancer awareness fundraiser. The goal is to raise $2,500 toward the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. To donate ...