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Cancer Types

Breast Cancer

  • Screening Gets Personal

    Conflicting and changing cancer screening guidelines have led to uncertainty and controversy. Can screening recommendations tailored for groups or individuals enhance benefits and reduce harms?

    by Kate Yandell

  • Forward Look

    Breast Cancer Survivors and Vaginal Estrogen

    Expert opinion affirms need to weigh risks and benefits.

    by Kate Yandell

  • Forward Look

    Fine-Tuning Treatments for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

    Studies aim to identify best available treatments and find new ones.

    by Cameron Walker

  • Healthy Habits

    Less Stress

    Cognitive-behavioral stress management may help women with breast cancer.

    by Brenda Conaway

  • Survivor Profile

    Changing Course

    During her treatment for breast cancer, biomedical engineer Jessica Winter challenged her laboratory to bring its discoveries to patients more quickly.

    by Chris Palmer

  • Forward Look

    Reducing Re-excision

    New guidelines and techniques aim to limit additional breast cancer surgeries.

    by Kendall K. Morgan

  • First Person

    To Test or Not to Test

    Twenty-two years after the first of two breast cancer diagnoses, a survivor decides to undergo genetic testing.

    by Cynthia Ryan

  • Forward Look

    Cost of Breast Cancer Treatment Affects Adherence

    Drug for early-stage cancer must be taken for many years to be effective.

    by Kendall K. Morgan

  • The DCIS Dilemma

    Ductal carcinoma in situ is the fourth most common cancer diagnosis in women. Some say it's not "really" cancer. But you wouldn't know that based on how it is treated.

    by Sue Rochman

  • Yesterday & Today

    The Voice of Lamb Chop

    Ventriloquist Shari Lewis and her sidekick, a white wool puppet named Lamb Chop, won the hearts of generations of children who tuned in to her television shows.

    by Jocelyn Selim