Breast Cancer

Beaumont Health System will host three community health fairs to observe National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. Attendees of the eighth annual...

    The mainstream corporate-controlled media is heralding Angelina Jolie's decision to have her perfectly healthy breasts and ovaries...

    by Matt Sloane (CNN) -- Although drinking alcohol is known to be a risk factor for developing breast cancer, a new...

NEW YORK — ESPN is staying in the family in giving its Arthur Ashe Courage Award to Robin Roberts at its annual ESPY awards this summer. The “Good Morning America” anchor is being saluted for how she kept viewers involved in her treatments for two serious illnesses. She had breast cancer in 2007 and last year had to undergo a bone marrow transplant to treat a rare blood disorder. Roberts returned to “Good Morning America” last month. Roberts came to sister company ABC from ESPN, where she was the network’s first black female sportscaster. Most past awards recipients have sports connections, like former Tennessee women’s basketball coach Pat Summitt last year. But the ESPYs have also honored Nelson Mandela and the four men who tried to stop one of the Sept. 11 hijackings. ...

ANN ARBOR (WWJ) - A new study suggests that most women who chose to have a double mastectomy, may not actually...

A New York Times piece profiling Oprah Winfrey "at a crossroads" -- meaning, speaking to loyal and adoring fans at a...

The great acts of good people were on display at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute’s 18th Annual Heroes of Breast...

Royal Oak (WWJ) - In the past, treating early stage partial breast cancer with radiation took 6 weeks, recently it’s been...

In what's being touted as the largest analysis of breast cancer screening methods for women under the age of 40, researchers...

"We spend too much time rocking pink ribbons already and not enough money on actual prevention and treatment," Kirsten West Savali writes at...