Cancer patients have enough to worry about — they shouldn't have to worry about the health effects of medications taken before cancer surgery. And new evidence suggests they may not have to.

Doctors may now have a new — and equally effective — breast cancer screening tool in their arsenal.

Teaching an old drug a new trick may not be so far-fetched.

Young women with invasive breast cancer are often faced with a difficult choice: whether or not to undergo chemotherapy despite its risk of infertility.

Got a darker complexion? Here's why you should be checking the palms of your hands and soles of your feet.

If the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has its way, teens nationwide will be banned from using tanning beds.

Hormone therapy is often used to ease symptoms like hot flashes in postmenopausal women. But this practice may have another benefit.

The current front-line treatment for early breast cancer, tamoxifen, may have met its match.

Chemotherapy can greatly improve cancer patients' chances of survival. But with this treatment comes a serious and equally life-threatening risk: heart failure.

Breast cancer patients and their doctors may now have a new tool in their toolbox.