Depression might influence breast cancer risk
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NEW YORK  - Depression appears to somewhat heighten the risk of breast cancer, but it has no significant association with lung, colon or prostate cancer, according to a review of the medical literature conducted by Dutch researchers.
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Fish oil may help lower the risk of breast cancer, but the benefit may depend largely on a woman's genetic makeup, researchers have found.
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MONDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) -- It may be unhealthy in many other ways, but smoking does not appear to raise the odds that a woman with breast cancer will have more aggressive or later-stage malignancy at the time of diagnosis, researchers report.
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Hormone replacement therapy, breast surgery and a low body weight all make it harder to detect breast cancer, scientists have discovered.
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Hormone replacement therapy can  raise the risk of an uncommon type of breast cancer fourfold  after just three years, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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NEW YORK  - New research provides more  evidence that childbearing factors, especially those related to  a first pregnancy, influence a woman's risk of breast cancer.
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19 (HealthDayNews) -- Shortcomings in the capability of cells to repair damaged DNA are linked with increased breast cancer risk, says a study in the Jan. 19 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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Professionally led support groups may ease anxiety and depression in women who carry gene mutations linked to breast and ovarian cancers, a new study suggests.
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Women who are overweight when diagnosed with breast cancer or who become overweight after learning of their condition are more likely to die or have the disease come back, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
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A new study is the first to link weight gain to specific types of breast cancer
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NEW YORK  - Older women who take certain antidepressants are at increased risk of fracturing a bone, but it's not clear whether the association is due to the drugs, depression itself, or some other factor, according to a new report in the Harvard Women's Health Watch.
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Previous reports have shown that obesity increases a woman&#39;s risk of developing breast cancer -- and now new research indicates that obesity continues to have a negative effect once breast cancer occurs.
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NEW YORK  - In women with breast cancer,  the probability of dying from that malignancy, as opposed to  some other cause, can range from 3 percent to 85 percent,  depending on factors such as disease stage and patient age at  diagnosis, new research shows.
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NEW YORK  - Authors of a report released this week encourage women who survive breast cancer to address all of the modifiable risk factors they have for heart disease, because breast cancer therapy can damage the heart.
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 13 (HealthDayNews) -- Early growth patterns in a girl's life, going back as far as her birth weight, influence her later risk of developing breast cancer.
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People with mental disorders develop cancer at younger ages and have higher odds of later being diagnosed with certain cancers, including tumors of the brain and lung, according to a new analysis of insurance claims.
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TUESDAY, Oct. 12 (HealthDayNews) -- Women with a high risk of breast cancer can find much help and solace in support groups, according to a new study to be published in the Nov. 15 issue of CANCER, a journal of the American Cancer Society.