October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. You will no doubt be seeing lots of slogans and messages promoting breast health, including mammography.

Those of you with hereditary breast cancer (confirmed by the finding that you carry a breast-cancer gene), please listen up.

You've been tested for breast cancer genes and the test comes back negative. So is it time to celebrate?

Breasts remain a focal point for men’s eyes and teenage girls’ minds.

It shouldn’t, but it does. Elderly patients risk treatment discrimination, which has been confirmed in a research study presented September 24, 2011, at a cancer congress in Stockholm.

I was contacted by ABC News last week, who posed this question to me: Over the last 15 years, celebrities and public figures have “gone public” about their diagnoses of breast cancer. Do you thi

As the foliage starts to turn colors, we may notice a change in the foods our bodies crave. The desire for an ice popsicle just might be replaced by a yearning for a warm bowl of soup.

I pose this weighty question twice a year, when I conduct my regular semi-annual retreats for patients with metastatic breast cancer.

This Halloween season, don’t be tricked by treats! The average American consumes a whopping 180 pounds of sugar per year.

On the last day of October, it's time for reflection. Throughout the month, it's hard to open a woman's magazine, listen to the radio, or watch TV without being greeted with a public service anno