During the period from 2012 to 2022, the number of cancer survivors will grow from about 14 million to 18 million. This means that today, almost 5 percent of the American population are survivors of this disease after their diagnosis. Among men, the leading cancer of survivors is prostate (43 percent of the total) while ... read more »

Obesity has been linked to increased incidence and poorer outcomes in many health conditions. One of these is breast cancer. A recent article in Journal of Clinical Oncology by Jennifer Ligibel addresses the connection between obesity and breast cancer outcomes. An analysis of 43 studies showed that obese women with breast cancer had a 33 percent ... read more »

It has been a long and rough road for reality TV stars Bill and Giuliana Rancic on their quest to start a family, but they may have finally settled on the correct path to parenthood for them. They have elected to enlist the aid of a gestational carrier to bring their first child into the ... read more »

A senior vice president for the Susan G. Komen For the Cure foundation has resigned one week after the organization started receiving massive amounts of criticism over its decision to cease funding to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings. Karen Handel has issued a letter of resignation as a Komen official to the group’s founder ... read more »

The Susan G. Komen Foundation released a statement Friday that announced the reversal of their controversial decision to cut some funding to Planned Parenthood. According to The Washington Post, the group made the announcement Tuesday that it was cutting some of its funding to Planned Parenthood but failed to cite an exact reason why, except ... read more »

The Susan G. Komen For the Cure foundation has been receiving a lot of public backlash this week over its decision to cease support for Planned Parenthood, but it seems the move has caused a internal chaos in the organization as well. Komen’s top public health official, Mollie Williams, resigned over the decision, a source ... read more »

Smallpox, Polio, Rinderpest…These are diseases that have been eradicated or nearly eradicated by a vaccine. They are also proof that it can be done–maybe even with cancer. Dr. Manny Alvarez, the senior managing health editor of FoxNews.com, expresses excitement about new reports from the University of Georgia pertaining to a potential vaccine for cancer. After promising trial results, researchers say ... read more »

Giuliana Rancic announced that she’s planning to undergo a double mastectomy in her continuing fight against breast cancer. Rancic, who hosts E! News host and stars in the reality show “Giuliana & Bill” appeared on the “Today Show” with her husband Bill and talked her decision to proceed after a double lumpectomy failed to remove ... read more »

After seven years and a fight by cancer survivors, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has revoked its approval of the drug Avastin to be used as a treatment to fight breast cancer. The FDA says that Avastin has not been sufficiently “proven safe and effective” for treating breast cancer, despite its approved use for ... read more »

A new study finds that a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer increase if they consume as few as three alcoholic beverages per week. The study, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, reviewed data over a 28-year period. Researchers found that women who drank three to six glasses of wine per week ... read more »

At 36 years old, Giuliana Rancic had to be dragged “kicking and screaming,” as she put it, in to have a mammogram. Her doctor had recommended it because she was trying to have a baby through in vitro fertilization. As it turns out, the test may have saved her life–it showed Rancic that she was ... read more »

Post-menopausal women with a certain type of advanced breast cancer more than doubled the time they lived without their disease getting worse by taking a combination of two drugs from Novartis and Pfizer, study data shows. Clinical trials showed that women treated with a combination of Novartis’ Afinitor (or everolimus) and Pfizer’s oestrogen-blocker Aromasin (known generically as ... read more »

In spite of Alaina Giordano’s claim that the court used her cancer against her in a custody hearing, her children are now going to live with their father. The North Carolina State Supreme Court denied a request this week for a hold on the order from a lower court giving custody to the father until her appeal of that ruling ... read more »

Dapagliflozin, a drug which appears to be effective at treating diabetes, has shown in clinincal trials that it may increase risk of breast and bladder cancer and liver toxicity, according to FDA reviewers. On Tuesday, The FDA’s Endocrinologic and Metabolic Advisory Committee will meet to hold a vote on whether the drug should be approved. FDA reviewers ... read more »

Several cancer survivors gathered outside a Food and Drug Administration office building in Silver Spring, Maryland where a panel of six experts was getting ready two days of discussion and a vote on the fate of Avastin, the drug that may have saved their lives. In July 2010, an advisory panel voted 12-1 to withdraw the specific approval of ... read more »