A Recent study has demonstrated how white yam extracts could be used effectively to treat breast cancer tumours. The study, conducted by Dr. Joy Ifunanya Odimegwu and Prof. Olukemi Abiodun Odukoya of the Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos, was published in the journal bioRxiv.

In celebration of Mother's Day, 44-year-old actress Angelina Jolie wrote an emotional tribute to her late mother Marcheline Bertrand. Bertrand died in 2007 after being diagnosed with ovarian and breast cancer. In her tribute for the New York Times, the Academy Award-winning star chronicled Bertrand's devotion and sacrifice for her children, the loss of her mother and…

A man who was diagnosed with breast cancer says he was made to feel 'isolated and lonely' after an online support group declined his membership because of his gender. David McCallion, 55, who is a community worker from Manchester, United Kingdom was told he would have to have a mastectomy and feared his condition could…

The Medical Women Association of Nigeria (MWAN) has advocated early detection of breast and cervical cancers, noting that women above 30 years of age were predisposed to the scourge.

American actress Shannen Doherty, in an interview with ABC News that aired Tuesday on Good Morning America, shared that she is battling stage four breast cancer. "It's going to come out in a matter of days or a week that — I'm stage four. So my cancer came back. And that's why I'm here. I don't…

Free breast cancer screenings will again be available, this time in all six regions of Nigeria as a result of the long-standing partnership between Shoprite Nigeria and Run For a Cure Africa (RFCA).

Exercising more after being diagnosed with breast cancer could lower your risk of dying, a study suggests.

Breast cancer is the abnormal growth of cells in the breasts. Just as cancer is the abnormal growth of cells in the body; and this can occur in any part of the body, whether bone, brain, skin, breasts, bladder.

There have been claims and counter claims of the effect of herbal remedies on breast cancer treatments. Doctors have in recent studies warned that skin creams and herbal remedies may interfere with breast cancer treatments.

In commemoration of the Breast Cancer Awareness month, marked every October, Guardian Woman spoke to two women, Eno Essien and Nnnenna Obasi who both survived breast cancer and are thriving today. They bare it all in these interviews, from discovering lumps in their breasts, getting the diagnosis, treatment and getting their lives back together.

Dr. Matthew Obinna Nwaneri is an Associate Professor at Carver College of Medicine and Medical Director, Iowa Oncology Network, medical oncologist at the University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC), and part of the Breast, Colo-rectal, and Genitourinary Multidisciplinary Tumor Boards.

Mrs Kehinde Gbelee, Mrs Ebunola Anozie and Ms Della Ogunleye are the three most unlikely women to sit in the same room. Mrs Kehinde is a bespectacled academic, cool, collected and cerebral she self corrects like an iPhone as she speaks, her length sentences peppered with “rather than”s and “perhaps.” Mrs Anozie is classically beautiful…