Women with metastatic breast cancer are often faced with a serious dilemma: The five-year survival rate is a dismal 2%, and standard treatments for these advanced-stage breast cancers are replete
In 2007, a New Zealand woman named Tricia Spence was diagnosed with breast cancer that had spread to her bones and lymph nodes. Her oncologists recommended a full
Two years ago, European media sources published a story about a scientist who was running in the London Marathon to raise funds for some groundbreaking cancer research. That scientist was
Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in women worldwide, with nearly two million new cases diagnosed each year. The disease accounts for at least one
Every woman diagnosed with breast cancer wonders if it will come back after completing treatment. The concern is reasonable, since breast cancer can recur at any time, though
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a noninvasive form of cancer therapy that has been successfully used to treat various types of cancer, and there has been growing interest in using
Over a million new cases of breast cancer are reported each year around the world, and one in every ten cancer-related deaths are linked with breast cancer. To