Breast Cancer
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WebMD Health - Breast Cancer
A shorter, cheaper, and more convenient three-week course of radiation appears to work just as well as the traditional six-week schedule for some women with early-stage breast cancer, a new study suggests.
Doctors recommend breast-conserving surgery for 3 in 4 women with early breast cancer. Second opinions rarely differ, so surgeon advice doesn't raise mastectomy rates.
A single gene variant predicts breast-cancer survival after tamoxifen treatment. In the 46% of women with the "good" gene, tamoxifen works as well as newer drugs.
Breast cancer death rates continue to drop by 2% a year. Despite the decline, African-American women die of breast cancer 40% more often than white women.
Breast cancer survivor Mary Manasco, 59, talks about her lumpectomy, double mastectomy, breast cancer recurrence, and mastectomy.
