Breast Cancer

When hormone replacement therapy use dropped, the number of breast cancer cases also fell.

Eating soy food does not increase the risk of breast cancer recurrence.

Women who drink five cups of coffee a day are 57 percent less likely to develop the cancer than women who drink less than a cup of coffee a day.

A new genetic test may be able to predict a woman's chance of survival after chemotherapy for breast cancer.

Women who drank red wine every day for a month had lower estrogen levels than those who drank white wine.

Women with BRCA mutations have a higher risk of developing breast cancer, but not all actually develop the disease.

Smoking did account for increases in breast cancer risk in non-obese women, though.

The hormone estrogen may reduce the number of breast cancer stem cells, which initiate tumor growth.

Mammograms can detect early-stage breast cancer in women who've had the disease in the past. But there are problems with accuracy.

Women who had given birth three or more times were 1.5 times more likely to develop "triple-negative" breast cancer than women who'd given birth only once, the study showed.