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What is Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma?

A pathologist, a doctor who specializes in the study of diseases, will study the sample to look for signs of cancer. When you have surgery, your do...

Paget's Disease of The Breast

Paget's disease of the breast is a rare type of cancer that forms in or around your nipple. One theory is that cancer cells from the tumor travel t...

Risk Factors for Breast Cancer

In 1940, the lifetime risk of a woman developing breast cancer was 5%, or one in 20. If a family member had ovarian cancer under age 50, your risk ...

HER2-Positive Breast Cancer

You might get it before surgery to shrink the tumor, after surgery to kill remaining cancer cells, as treatment for cancer that has spread, or comb...

How Do I Know If I Have Metastatic Breast Cancer?

If your breast cancer spreads to other parts of your body, doctors will call it “metastatic.” ('Metastasize' means to spread.) It tends to go to th...

Breast Cancer and Genetic Testing

Women who inherit the mutated BRCA1 gene have a 55% to 65% risk of breast cancer by age 70. People who have a mutated BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene have a hi...

Breast Lumps: Causes and When to Call a Doctor

You notice that something is different with your breast, and you find a lump. You could get lumps in both breasts that increase in size and tendern...

Breast Reconstruction

If you’ve had a mastectomy because of breast cancer, you may choose to have reconstructive plastic surgery. Restoring a breast isn’t considered a c...

Breast Cancer Treatment

Breast cancer treatments are getting better all the time, and people have many more options today than ever. This refers to practices that aren’t p...

Breast Cancer Screening and Diagnosis

A mammogram is an X- ray of the breast. Screening mammograms are those that are looking at your breasts when you don’t have a specific lump or othe...

Breast Cancer in Men

Symptoms of breast cancer in men are similar to those in women.

Breast Cancer and Pregnancy

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes mothers-to-be have breast cancer. Ending a pregnancy won’t improve a woman's chances of beating breast cance...