Can Nipple Piercings Increase Your Risk of Breast Cancer?
Despite the rumors, nipple piercings cannot increase your risk of breast cancer. Here’s what you should be worried about instead.
Are All Breast Lumps Breast Cancer?
Four out of five biopsies of breast lumps are benign, meaning that they are harmless and certainly not breast cancer.
Breast Density & Your Breast Cancer Risk: What You Need to Know
There is one known breast cancer risk factor that still raises a lot of questions: breast density. About 10% of women have extremely dense breasts, and research has shown that their risk of developing breast cancer is double compared to those with non-dense breasts
Breast Imaging Recommendations for Pregnant and Lactating Women
If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, you may wonder whether breast cancer screening and diagnostic imaging are safe and effective for you. Can these tests be done without harming your baby? Will changes in your breasts affect how doctors interpret the results? Fortunately, research has provided clear, evidence-based recommendations to guide patients and healthcare providers.
Breast Cancer Cases and Deaths Are Projected to Rise Globally
Published today in Nature
Medicine, the study finds that on average, 1 in 20 women worldwide will be diagnosed with breast cancer in
their lifetime, and that if current rates continue, by 2050 there will be 3.2 million new breast cancer cases and
1.1 million breast cancer-related deaths per year, and the growth will disproportionately affect countries with a
low Human Development Index (HDI).
