Late motherhood and major weight gain after 20 may triple breast cancer risk, warns study conducted on over 48,000 women ...

New research out of London suggests that human breast cells accumulate mutations as women age — and pregnancy can influence this process. The Imperial College London study, published Wednesday ...

A study observing changes in healthy breast cells may explain why breast cancer might develop after pregnancy. The cell-based study has helped begin to disentangle the complex relationship between ...

To study the question, the researchers used patient data from the Scottish Cancer Registry and national maternity databases. Nearly 5,200 women younger than 40 had a breast cancer diagnosis made ...

Bianchi felt a lump, which turned out to be breast cancer, when her firstborn, Mia, was 18 months old. Doctors advised against another pregnancy, but she learned of the research and signed up.

Long Island is home to one of the nation’s known breast cancer clusters — areas with higher-than-average breast cancer rates.

For women with early-stage breast cancer, breast-conserving therapy (BCT) including radiation therapy (RT) leads to progressive reduction in breast size over time, reports a study in the April ...