Rates of breast cancer in Japan, Singapore and South Korea are now three times what they were forty years ago.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Myriad Genetics received patents for methods to identify women with genes that create a high risk of breast cancer.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

Yet new guidelines last week for breast cancer testing in the United States created a storm of debate.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

For example, the rate of breast cancer in Japan, Singapore and Korea is now 3 times what it was 40 years ago.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

But breast cancer expert Susan Love says the new guidelines are similar to those of most other countries.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

On Monday,an influential group of medical experts released new guidelines on testing for breast cancer.

VOA: special.2009.11.18

The same is true of women with breast cancer and patients with liver problems.

VOA: special.2009.05.19

Fifteen percent of the money goes to the National Philanthropic Trust Breast Cancer Fund.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

Results of the study were reported in the journal Breast Cancer Research and Treatment.

VOA: special.2010.06.01

The band included his wife,Linda, who died of breast cancer in nineteen ninety-eight.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

In women, it resulted from fewer cases of breast cancer and colorectal cancer.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

And I think it pushes them to that point where getting rid of breast cancer will help those cancer patients go "I don't have to do this anymore."

VOA: special.2009.11.02

In women,it resulted from fewer cases of breast and colorectal cancer.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

She died of breast cancer in nineteen sixty-four.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

"Women who had their ovaries removed had a decrease in the risk of breast cancer, a decrease in the risk of ovarian cancer and,in addition,they were less likely to die of breast cancer, less likely to die of ovarian cancer and also had an improvement in their overall survival."

VOA: special.2010.09.22

The discovery could help doctors predict the course of breast cancer disease and even help them decide the most appropriate treatment.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

These tests,along with mammography for breast cancer, help detect cancers at very early stages and increase chances of survival.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

For decades,American women were urged to get yearly mammograms, starting at age 40, as part of screening for breast cancer.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

Harvard research shows that more than half of the 450,000 people who died from breast cancer last year lived in developing countries.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

"If they do both, they have an 89 percent reduction in the risk of developing breast cancer.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

Researchers at Wake Forest University looked at a certain protein that regulates iron and studied the amount of it in breast cancer cells.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

If they drink three cups of green tea, three times a week, they also have a 50 percent reduction in the risk of developing breast cancer."

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

"Turkey will always be secular," tens of thousands of people chanted as they followed the coffin of professor Turkan Saylan who died of breast cancer on Monday.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

"A recent study in China found that women who eat mushrooms three times a week have a 50 percent reduction in the risk of developing breast cancer.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

He says part of the problem with breast cancer is the disease itself.

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

In the United States in 2009, new recommendations on mammograms by a government appointed panel of experts fueled a controversy around breast cancer and how to prevent it.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

"If a woman gets breast cancer in the developing world, they has a much higher probability of dying than a woman who gets breast cancer in the developed world."

VOA: standard.2010.02.02

Frank Torti,who led the research team. They found that ferroportin levels were a good predictor of the course of the cancer, specifically whether breast cancer survivors would have a recurrence of the disease.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05