Food for Breast Cancer articles
Articles are updated continually as new research becomes available
Breast cancer prognosis
- African-American breast cancer patients can improve their breast cancer outcomes
- Breast cancer patients who gain weight after diagnosis have worse prognosis
- Hormone receptor and HER2 status changes can influence prognosis
- How can young breast cancer survivors avoid a recurrence?
- Latest research on exercise and breast cancer survival
- Obesity increases risk of breast cancer and worsens prognosis
Breast cancer risk factors
- Cadmium increases the risk of breast cancer
- Do antibiotics cause breast cancer?
- Does infection with HPV (human papillomavirus) cause breast cancer?
- Does type 2 diabetes increase the risk of breast cancer?
- Family history of breast cancer means higher risk and getting cancer at a younger age
- How does birth control pill use influence breast cancer risk?
- How does breast reduction surgery affect risk of breast cancer?
- Is blood type related to the risk of breast cancer?
- Latest research concerning benign fibrocystic breast disease and breast cancer
- Latest research concerning breast cancer in Asian Americans
- Latest research concerning breast density and breast cancer
- Latest research on exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) and breast cancer
- Latest research on exposure to phthalates and breast cancer
- Latest research on hormone replacement therapy and breast cancer
- Left-handedness is a marker for increased breast cancer risk
- Reasons to have regular screening mammograms starting at age 40
- Red wine: Should breast cancer patients and those at high risk drink it?
- Some occupations are associated with increased risk of breast cancer
Breast cancer treatment
- Latest research concerning impact of endocrine therapy on breast cancer prognosis
- Latest research concerning side effects of chemotherapy
- Latest research on chemo brain after breast cancer treatment
- Latest research on factors influencing Adriamycin (doxorubicin) effectiveness
- Latest research on factors influencing Taxol (paclitaxel) effectiveness
- Latest research on lymphedema after breast cancer surgery
- Latest research on radiation treatment for breast cancer
- Morphine during surgery increases, whereas Toradol reduces, risk of metastasis
- What should breast cancer patients and survivors eat during tamoxifen treatment?
- What should breast cancer patients eat during Adriamycin (doxorubicin) chemotherapy?
- What should breast cancer patients eat during radiation treatment?
- What should breast cancer patients eat during Taxol (paclitaxel) chemotherapy?
- What should breast cancer survivors eat during aromatase inhibitor treatment?
- When should mastectomy be followed by radiation treatment?
- Would fasting during chemotherapy improve treatment effectiveness?
Family history of breast cancer
- BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers
- How can we protect our daughters from breast cancer? - Childhood and puberty
- How can we protect our daughters from breast cancer? - Prenatal period and infancy
- How can we protect our daughters from breast cancer? - Teenage years and young adulthood
- How can we protect our sons from breast cancer?
- What should BRCA1 and BRCA2 carriers, breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
Food and supplements
- Are there specific foods or diets that can cure breast cancer?
- Can vitamin C cure or prevent breast cancer?
- Dietary fiber is associated with reduced risk of breast cancer
- Does aspirin prevent breast cancer recurrence?
- Does the Mediterranean diet reduce breast cancer risk?
- How can young breast cancer survivors avoid a recurrence?
- How important is Vitamin D before and after breast cancer diagnosis?
- How to optimize your breast cancer diet
- How to optimize your breast cancer diet — an example
- Is the raw food diet a good idea for breast cancer patients?
- To those who are thinking of using a raw food diet alone to treat breast cancer
Types: Ductal breast cancer
- Breast cancer types
- Ductal breast cancer and DCIS
- What happens after treatment for DCIS?
- What should ductal breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
Types: HER2 positive breast cancer
- Breast cancer types
- HER2/neu overexpressing breast cancer
- Latest research concerning HER2 positive breast cancer prognosis
- What should breast cancer patients and survivors eat during Herceptin treatment?
- What should HER2/neu breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
Types: Hormone receptor positive (ER+/PR+) breast cancer
- Breast cancer types
- ER+/PR+ breast cancer
- Latest research concerning hormone receptor positive (ER+/PR+) breast cancer prognosis
- What should hormone receptor positive (ER+/PR+) breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
Types: Lobular breast cancer
- Breast cancer types
- Latest research concerning lobular breast cancer prognosis
- Lobular breast cancer and LCIS
- What should lobular breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
Types: Mixed hormone receptor (ER+/PR- or ER-/PR+) breast cancer
- Breast cancer types
- ER+/PR- breast cancer
- ER-/PR+ breast cancer
- Latest research concerning mixed hormone receptor (ER+/PR- or ER-/PR+) breast cancer prognosis
- What should ER+/PR- breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
- What should ER-/PR+ breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
Types: Other types and categories of breast cancer
- Inflammatory breast cancer
- Latest research concerning breast cancer in old age
- Latest research on breast cancer in very young women
- Male breast cancer characteristics, treatment and prognosis
- What should inflammatory breast cancer patients and survivors eat?
Types: Triple negative breast cancer
- Breast cancer types
- Influence of BMI, metabolic syndrome and diabetes on triple negative breast cancer prognosis
- Latest research concerning triple negative breast cancer prognosis
- Patterns of recurrence in triple negative breast cancer patients
- Prognosis of African Americans and Latinas with triple negative breast cancer
- Prognosis of triple negative breast cancer compared to other breast cancer subtypes
- Triple negative breast cancer
- Triple negative breast cancer prognosis according to age at diagnosis
- Tumor characteristics influencing prognosis of triple negative breast cancer
- What should triple negative breast cancer patients and survivors eat?