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Nutrition and Exercise During Breast Cancer Treatment

Generally, diets for breast cancer patients are higher in protein, which provides the building blocks your body needs. Your treatment diet may be m...

Breast Cancer: what Does 'Metastatic' Mean?

Metastatic breast cancer means the cancer has spread from your breast to distant organs such as your bones, lungs, or other parts of your body. Bre...

Fibroadenoma

If your doctor has told you that you have a fibroadenoma in your breast, don’t panic. Some researchers have found that women with a family history ...

Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC)

When doctors find an area in your breast that isn’t normal, they’ll cut out a little bit of the tissue to test the cells. After your treatment is o...

Stage II Breast Cancer Treatment Options

In stage II, the cancer is still contained within the breast and in some cases in nearby lymph nodes. Some women who get a mastectomy will also hav...

Stage IV Breast Cancer Treatment Options

Hormone therapy can be helpful for women with hormone receptor-positive cancers. That means certain hormones stimulate growth of the cancer. Women ...

Stage III Breast Cancer Treatment Options

The treatment can destroy cancer cells that may have been missed. Fulvestrant (Faslodex) and toremifene (Fareston) block hormone receptors and are ...

Stage I Breast Cancer Treatment Options

Hormone therapy is a good option after surgery for women who have tumors that use hormones to grow, called hormone receptor-positive cancer. Women ...

Stage 0 Breast Cancer Treatment Options

After a mastectomy, you might choose to have breast reconstruction surgery. Hormone therapy after surgery may also help prevent more cancer from de...

Breast Cancer and Preventive Mastectomy

In hopes of avoiding future disease, some women at very high risk of developing breast cancer elect to have both breasts surgically removed, a proc...

Hormone Therapy for Breast Cancer

About two-thirds of women with breast cancer have tumors that contain hormone receptors. But women who take tamoxifen are more likely to develop ca...

Breast Cancer Causes and Risk Factors

The precise causes of breast cancer are unclear, but we know the main risk factors. Still, most women considered at high risk for breast cancer do ...