Breast Cancer

What are the possible signs of having breast cancer? Many healthy breasts are lumpy, and most lumps are not cancerous. In fact, 80% of breast lumps that are biopsied are not cancer—they are benign.

What are the possible risk factors for breast cancer? Are there ways to minimize our risk of developing breast cancer?

A survey of community-based, organizational, and clinical barriers to care demonstrates that life stressors impact treatment and health outcomes, something holistic practitioners have known for a very long time.

This resource explains the approaches and terms by which we screen for, diagnose, and treat breast cancer.

Treatment recommendations for breast cancer differ based on the specific type, extent, and characteristics of the cancer. We should have information about the potential risks and harms of each treatment, in order to make our own decisions.

There are several ways to categorize different kinds of breast cancers. Each helps to give a better understanding of how a specific breast cancer behaves and what treatments are most likely to be effective.

Breast cancer is both all too common and incredibly individual. Here is Breast Cancer Action's introduction to what we need to know.

What are the best ways to give emotional and practical support to a loved one with a breast cancer diagnosis?

What is wrong with a pills-based approach to breast cancer prevention? This BCAction fact sheet describes the efforts to bring drugs to the market to reduce breast cancer incidence in healthy people, and the problems that approach creates.

This resource untangles facts from fictions regarding what are real risk factors for breast cancer, and what aren't.

The incidence of breast cancer is rising faster than hereditary or lifestyle factors can explain. And there is growing evidence that exposure to a range of chemicals and toxins harms our health.

In 2016, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a double mastectomy. When I woke up from surgery, I was horrified to discover that I was nowhere near flat as agreed.