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Cancer rates are declining in the US, but the incidence of adenocarcinoma, the most common type of esophageal cancer, has increased more rapidly since the 1970s than any other cancer. Until recently, cancer of the esophagus—the foot-long muscular tube that carries...
A daily aspirin may lower the odds of developing colon, prostate and breast cancer for people at high risk for those malignancies,...
There's more evidence pointing to a connection between estrogen and breast cancer. New research indicates that the female hormone appears...
New clues have surfaced on how leptin, a hormone found in fat cells, may play a major role in the development and...
Then millions of US women threw out their prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in 2002, the rates of breast cancer started...
Scientists have developed a breast cancer vaccine that stimulates a powerful immune system response to tumor cells. In mice, the "synthetic...
Most women know to tell their doctors about any new breast lumps. But a lump is not the only potential warning sign...
Women with early-stage breast cancer may safely wait up to 12 weeks after cancer surgery before they begin chemotherapy, a new study...
A shorter course of external beam radiation therapy for early stage breast cancer is both safe and effective, new research shows. Background...
Nearly one-quarter of breast cancer patients stop taking the drug tamoxifen within the first year of a standard fiveyear regimen, a new...
Scientists at the National Cancer Institute report that adding a second drug molecule to tamoxifen, the breast cancer drug used successfully for...
Men who have breast cancer have a significantly increased risk for a second cancer, malignant melanoma and stomach cancer, according to the...