by Weill Cornell Medicine | Jun 10, 2021
Two gene variants found in African American women may explain why they are more likely to be diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) than white women of European ancestry, according to Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators. The...
by Melanie McDermet, M.S. | Nov 13, 2020
What are BRCA1 & BRCA2 Genes? While every woman has about a 12% risk to develop breast cancer, the risk is higher when a woman has a variation in a certain gene. In the mid 1990’s, researchers found that mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes increase a woman’s,...
by April Zubko | Apr 15, 2020
With over one-third of adult women estimated to use hair dye in the U.S. (1), hair dye and breast cancer have been a topic of interest with researchers for some time. A study published in December in the International Journal of Cancer sheds some light on the...
by American Cancer Society | Jan 24, 2018
Overall breast cancer death rates dropped 39 percent between 1989 and 2015, averting 322,600 breast cancer deaths during those 26 years. And while black women continue to have higher breast cancer death rates than whites nationally, death rates in several states are...
by Sara Gates | May 17, 2013
We’ve talked before how learning about breast cancer can feel like learning a new language. There are many different types, different stages, and different risk factors involved, but perhaps no single term is more confusing than one particularly confounding...
