During breast cancer surgery, the surgeon takes some healthy tissue to make sure all the cancer is removed. The area between the tumor bed and healthy tissue is known as the margin, a key outcome measurement.

One of the mysteries of cancer is its unpredictability. Sometimes chemotherapies  work, and sometimes they don't. Recent research may help physicians personalize treatment for individual patients.

We're told to eat lots of vegetables and whole grains. They should be the staple of our diet. A new study finds that the way these foods are produced impacts our risk of cancer - slightly - but still the risk is there.

If you're planning to get pregnant, don't let a prior breast cancer diagnosis stop you. Pregnancy following breast cancer remission appears to be safe.

Cancer is an ever-changing biological process, and how it behaves is as unique as the body it invades. Researchers have found with one particularly nasty form of breast cancer, patients actually feed their own cancer cells.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a silicone gel-filled breast implant for breast augmentation and reconstruction. This is only the third gel filled implant approved in the United States.

The discrepancy between breast cancer risk and alcohol consumption has been frequently questioned, given that patients who consumed only red wine in studies on alcohol appeared to have a decreased risk of the disease.

You're taking the pill, or maybe you've tried one of the injectable contraceptives. Now you hear something about an association between birth control and cancer and you start to freak. No need to.

What's a girl to do when the flow stops and menopause rages? Is she to take hormone replacement therapy ( HRT ), or avoid it all costs because everyone knows it causes breast cancer - right? Not so fast there, lady.

About one in five women has painful swelling following breast cancer surgery. There are currently only limited options for dealing with this condition - lymphedema - but that may be about to change.