Posted 10:09 AM 2/6/2012

NEW YORK (AP) - When Dorothy Twinney first saw a Race for the Cure walk for breast cancer - "a sea of pink" traveling through her hometown of Plymouth, Mich. - she was so moved she sat in her car and wept.

This week, after watching The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity (More)

Posted 11:00 AM 2/3/2012

NEW YORK (AP) - Supporters are rallying around Planned Parenthood after renowned breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure decided to cut breast screening grants to the reproductive health organization. Besides $400,000 in smaller donations from 6,000 people, Planned (More)

Posted 12:34 PM 2/1/2012

Officials with Susan G. Komen for the Cure say the organization will stop funding Planned Parenthood breast examination programs.

The Los Angeles Times reports Komen announced Tuesday it will halt all partnerships with Planned Parenthood affiliates because recently adopted criteria forbid (More)

Posted 10:43 AM 1/26/2012

(AP) Surprising results from two new studies may reopen debate about the value of Avastin for breast cancer. The drug helped make tumors disappear in certain women with early-stage disease, researchers found. Avastin recently lost approval for treating advanced breast cancer, but the (More)

Posted 12:23 PM 1/23/2012

BOSTON (AP) - A federal judge in Boston has ordered 14 drug companies into talks that could lead to settlements with 53 women who claim their breast cancer was caused by an anti-miscarriage drug their mothers took decades ago. U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler read her ruling in (More)

Posted 11:00 AM 1/18/2012

Boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. announced Tuesday that he plans to donate $100,000 to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure's Southern Nevada affiliate to help battle breast cancer.

The announcement came just 12 days after a Las Vegas judge deferred a 3-month jail sentence on domestic violence (More)

Posted 10:19 AM 1/13/2012

NEW YORK (AP) - CVS Caremark Corp. will pay $5 million to resolve allegations that one of its subsidiaries understated the price of several drugs, including medications that treat epilepsy and symptoms of breast cancer. The payment will be used to reimburse Medicare prescription drug (More)

Posted 12:34 PM 1/9/2012

BOSTON (AP) - Arline MacCormack first heard about DES from her mother when she was 17. Three decades later, MacCormack believes that the drug her mother took to prevent miscarriages caused her to develop breast cancer at age 44. MacCormack, of Newton, is one of 53 women from around (More)

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Posted 11:13 AM 1/4/2012

Debbie Hardin knew her family history of breast cancer put her at greater risk. Her grandmother on her mom's side battled the disease.

Her self-awareness likely saved her life.

Hardin began getting examinations at the relatively young age of 32.

On Nov. 28, 2008, she (More) • Video (1)

Posted 10:04 AM 12/20/2011

CARACAS, Venezuela-Former Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall, whose struggle with breast cancer was closely followed by Venezuelans, has died at age 28.

Her family said Ekvall died Saturday at a hospital in Houston.

Ekvall was crowned Miss Venezuela at age 17 in 2000, and the following year (More)