Tag Archives: Breast Cancer

• Health

  7 questions on cancer gene testing

  Here are some common questions that our team is asked regarding genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer.
• Health

  What’s the gene that led to Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy?

  Angelina Jolie’s stunning announcement that she had a preventive double mastectomy raised both awareness and questions about the gene that led to her decision — BRCA1.
• Health

  Angelina Jolie undergoes double mastectomy

  “My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman,” Jolie wrote.
• Buddy Check 6 / Health

  Buddy Check: Future of cancer treatment

  Test helps patients avoid chemo, effects
• News

  Study: Alcohol may improve breast cancer survival

  Researchers found that being a moderate drinker may actually improve your chances of surviving breast cancer.
• Health

  Study suggests less-frequent mammograms for older women

  How often women should be screened for breast cancer has been a big debate in recent years.
• Virginia This Morning

  VIRGINIA THIS MORNING: Virginia Repertory Theatre

  This musical explores the roller coaster of emotions that come with a diagnosis of breast cancer.
• Buddy Check 6

  Mother, daughter test positive for breast cancer gene

  Kaity Kasper and her mother Debbie are cancer survivors.
• Virginia This Morning

  VIRGINIA THIS MORNING: Author Maimah Karmo

  Maimah Karmo was a young mother of 32 when she learned she had breast cancer.
• Health / News

  STUDY: Advanced breast cancer diagnosed in more young women

  A new study finds the incidence of advanced breast cancer is growing among younger women.
• Health

  New late-stage breast cancer treatment approved

  A drug that presents a new way to knock out cancer cells was approved Friday to treat patients with a certain type of late-stage metastatic breast cancer.
• Virginia This Morning

  VIRGINIA THIS MORNING: Brides Against Breast Cancer

  Brides Against Breast Cancer National Tour of Gowns unveils at The Omni Richmond Hotel.