Using an enzyme inhibitor in meniscus cells, a new study was able to soften their nucleus and promote access to previously impassible areas. By softening a cell's nucleus so that it can squeeze its ...

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. This month, we aim to raise awareness and action, support breast cancer survivors, and help women suffering from the disease by sharing relevant information.

Researchers have developed an automated model that assesses dense breast tissue in mammograms -- which is an independent risk factor for breast cancer -- as reliably as expert radiologists. This marks ...

Question: I just had a mammogram, and I was told that I have dense breast tissue. What does that mean? Answer: About half of women are considered to have dense breasts, based on the appearance of ...

Most women — and their doctors — tend to think of mammography as a one-scan-works-for-all test. I learned the hard way that it isn’t. When I turned 36, I had a baseline mammogram. Then, beginning at ...

Cancer turns up five times more often in women with extremely dense breasts than in those with the most fatty tissue, a study shows, signaling the importance of a risk factor rarely discussed with ...