The New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation is embarking on an ambitious $1.25 million programme to improve the wellbeing of women with breast cancer.

GlaxoSmithKline PLC on Wednesday applied for approval in the U.S. and Europe to sell an existing breast-cancer drug as a first-line treatment.

A portrait of abolitionist Frederick Douglass is not usually a staple in a federal courtroom, but things are different in U.S. District Judge Tucker Melancon's court.

A Thai overstayer with breast cancer says a decision to deport her would amount to a death sentence.

People with multiple sclerosis may have a lower overall risk of developing cancer, Swedish researchers report.

Researchers have identified new genetic variations in two regions of DNA -- located on chromosomes 1 and 14 -- that may be associated with the risk of sporadic breast cancer.

A breast cancer diagnosis is a scary time in a woman's life, but it also affects family members, particularly other women.

Breaking the curse...Krystal Barter with her son Jye. KRYSTAL BARTER calls it the family curse - four generations of women who have had breast cancer, each carrying a mutation in the BRCA1 gene.