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Falling Mammography Rates Alarm Researchers

In 2002, a U.S. government study found that women who used hormone therapy as a treatment for menopausal symptoms had an increased risk of developing…

Women May Benefit from Genetic Counseling for Hereditary Breast or Ovarian Cancer

A study found that young women at risk of developing hereditary breast or ovarian cancer are often uninformed about how to best protect themselves. Although…

Community Grantee Spotlight: Fighting Breast Cancer with Heart

Great strides have been made in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer but, we still don’t know what causes breast cancer and we don’t…

Prevent Cancer Grant Helps Gilda’s Club South Florida “Raise the Roof” on Breast Cancer

“Raising the Roof”, funded by the Prevent Cancer Foundation, is a new project undertaken by Gilda’s Club South Florida to address breast cancer disparity among women…

Donna Gutierrez's Breast Cancer Story

A Wake-Up Call From Cancer Donna Gutierrez, a home mortgage broker in Virginia, was living the fast life. A single mother with two grown children,…

Grace Bender's Breast Cancer Story

Armed with Information If watching her mother have a radical mastectomy, her father suffer from kidney cancer and her brother struggle with multiple myeloma taught Grace…

Vitamin D and Breast Cancer Prevention Research

This month, the Prevent Cancer Foundation is proud to highlight the work of Dr. Katherine Crew, Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at…

Remembering Elizabeth Edwards

Mother. Political spouse and advisor. Lawyer. Advocate. Author. Businesswoman. Survivor. Inspiration. These are just a few words to describe Elizabeth Edwards, an incredible woman and the…

An Impossible Dream Becomes Reality

Larry Norton, M.D. Deputy Physician in Chief, Breast Cancer Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center In my opinion one of the most remarkable achievements of the Prevent…

A ¡Celebremos la vida! Success Story

Help support this program with a StayClassy Award vote for the Prevent Cancer Foundation before this Friday, October 22! Following up on last week’s post…