Breast Cancer

Despite the gains noted in the overall number of Medicare patients undergoing colonoscopy, researchers continue to see differences in colorectal cancer screening rates among certain groups, particularly minorities.

Newer targets found on cancer cells are providing scientists the ammunition to better treat cancer.

An infection reminds a breast cancer survivor that implants do not come with a lifetime guarantee.

Breast cancer patients facing reconstruction may not find all the answers they need.

Breast reconstructions may need to be redone years later.

News from the 2009 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Dennis Slamon, MD, PhD, talks about his involvement in the history of Herceptin.

Herceptin can cause cardiac toxicity

Dennis Slamon, MD, PhD, discusses HER2 and the development of Herceptin.

A timeline of important Herceptin developments.

Testing for HER2 overexpression in breast cancer can affect treatment decisions.

Adding Avastin (bevacizumab) to standard chemotherapy after surgery failed to extend the time early-stage colon cancer patients were free of recurrence.

For the first time, a test can predict which patients with stage 2 colon cancer are more likely to have a recurrence.

Adding Avastin to standard therapy delays progression of advanced HER2-negative breast cancer in women without prior treatment.

A large phase III study examining whether the addition of Tarceva (erlotinib) to Avastin (bevacizumab) delayed progression of advanced non-small cell lung cancer reached its primary goal.

Taking tamoxifen at the same time as certain drugs that treat depression and hot flashes may reduce the cancer drug’s ability to prevent breast cancer recurrence.

An international phase III trial found the investigational lung cancer drug, Zactima (vandetanib), significantly slowed the time a patient’s advanced lung cancer progressed.

A new class of drugs called PARP inhibitors is getting some serious attention in metastatic triple-negative breast cancers.

For 25 years, surgical and medical oncologists have gathered in sunny Miami to discuss the latest strategies in breast cancer management.

The 8th Annual Conference for Young Women Affected by Breast Cancer welcomed women diagnosed with breast cancer at 40 or younger.

Is it best to start with tamoxifen and then switch to an aromatase inhibitor (AI), or should the AI come first?

Gene testing now recommended before colon cancer treatment

An unexpected survivor addresses breast cancer risk

Treatment updates from the 2009 ASCO Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.

Breast cancer survivors find healing in the challenges of the road.

A brief from this year's San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium discussing what new agents researchers have been testing when treating HER2-positive breast cancer.

A discussion about the best schedule for a class of drugs continues at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

CURE Editor-at-Large, Kathy LaTour, tells the story of metastatic cancer survivor Brenda Hutchinson and her involvment with the HER2 Support Group

A brief from this year's San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium where research was presented on the benefits that the drug Doxil can provide women who have relapsed after anthracycline treatment.

A brief from this year's San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium discusses new research from eight clinical trials that studied whether or not certain factors help to predict response to neoadjuvant therapy prior to surgery.