Posted 9:55 AM 3/26/2012

DALLAS (AP) - At least five high-ranking executives with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity have resigned in the aftermath of the organization's decision to eliminate its funding for Planned Parenthood. The departures include three officials from Komen's Dallas (More)

Posted 10:14 AM 3/8/2012

BOSTON (AP) - Scientists are reporting what could be very bad news for efforts to customize cancer treatment based on each person's genes. They have discovered big differences from place to place in the same tumor as to which genes are active or mutated. They also found differences in (More)

Posted 1:17 PM 3/7/2012

LONDON (AP) - Women who take estrogen after menopause appear to have a lower risk of breast cancer even years after they quit taking the hormone, according to a new analysis of a landmark study. The results are reassuring news for women who have had hysterectomies and use the pills to (More)

Posted 9:48 AM 3/6/2012

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - There are wedding bells in Riverdale, but it's not Archie and Betty or Veronica. It's Army Lt. Kevin Keller and the physical therapist who helped him overcome his war wound - Clay Walker. Meanwhile, in the comics pages, Gil is an 8-year-old boy being raised by his (More)

Posted 12:15 PM 3/5/2012

CHICAGO (AP) - Mike and Laura Park thought their credit record was spotless. The Texas couple wanted to take advantage of low interest rates, so they put their house on the market and talked to a lender about a mortgage on a bigger home in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs.

Their credit report (More)

Posted 9:13 AM 2/28/2012

FRANKFORT (AP) - Some people are calling on Kentucky first lady Jane Beshear to stop urging others to give contributions to breast cancer research if she's not going to make the same donation herself. Beshear has urged people for two years to mark a box on their state income tax (More)

Posted 11:22 AM 2/27/2012

(AP) - Patti Tyree was afraid that cancer would steal her future. Instead, the cost of treating it has. She had hoped to buy a small farm with money inherited from her mother. But copayments for just one $18,000 round of breast chemotherapy and one shot of a nearly $15,000 (More)

Posted 11:08 AM 2/23/2012

A study by Healthstat indicates younger women with breast cancer detected by mammograms have better outcomes than those whose doctors found the disease during an exam.

Researchers looked at nearly 2,000 women diagnosed with breast cancer between the ages of 40 and 49. Over an 18 year (More)

Posted 1:10 PM 2/17/2012

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) - Clare Droesch was fearless on the basketball court as a player at Boston College. Now she's taking that same approach to the challenge of fighting cancer.

It's been nearly two months since the 29-year-old Droesch was diagnosed with breast cancer and she's doing (More)

Posted 10:13 AM 2/15/2012

WASHINGTON (AP) - The maker of the widely prescribed cancer drug Avastin is warning doctors and patients about counterfeit vials of the product that have been distributed in the U.S. Roche's Genentech unit said Tuesday that the fake products do not contain the key ingredient in (More)