Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality in breast cancer survivors. A new study out of the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute has found that exercise training three to four times per week protects against ...
Nov 8, 2022
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Most women treated for breast cancer have something else in common: they worry about the cancer coming back.
Oct 19, 2022
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Some breast cancer survivors may experience lymphedema, a condition that causes painful swelling of their arm or hand after undergoing surgery or radiation.
Oct 5, 2022
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Scientists are still trying to understand why many breast cancer survivors experience troubling cognitive problems for years after treatment. Inflammation is one possible culprit. A new long-term study of older breast cancer ...
Sep 30, 2022
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As a cancer nurse in the U.S. Army for more than 29 years, Elizabeth Anderson saw firsthand how chemotherapy, radiation and surgeries impact the body's lymphatic system, putting breast cancer survivors at greater risk for ...
Sep 12, 2022
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Breast tissue features apparent on MRI are linked with future second breast cancer risk in women with a personal history of breast cancer, according to a study published in Radiology.
Aug 30, 2022
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Today, many women diagnosed with breast cancer live long after completing their cancer treatments and have post-treatment health and information needs. Unfortunately, across healthcare systems, survivorship care is neither ...
Aug 1, 2022
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Telling a child about their mother's risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer does not adversely influence the offspring's lifestyle or quality of life in the long term, according to a new study led by researchers at ...
Jul 21, 2022
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A new paper in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, published by Oxford University Press, finds that menopausal hormone therapy for breast cancer survivors is not associated with breast cancer reoccurrence, despite ...
Jul 20, 2022
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For breast cancer survivors, higher physical activity levels are associated with improved global longitudinal strain (GLS), according to a study published in the June 1 issue of JACC: CardioOncology.
Jun 27, 2022
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