According to U.S. and Israeli researchers, MRI is effective in distinguishing blood supply in breast tumors.

Researchers added that the differentiation is useful and helps treat breast cancer

Antioxidant found in green tea can significantly decrease breast tumours in mice, giving hope for the development of new drugs for patients with breast cancer, says researchers.

Daily ingestion of EGCG or epigallocatechin-3- gallate reduced weight of breast tumours in mice by 68 per cent

Women who took a commonly prescribed estrogen in hormone therapy have more than twice the risk of developing specific types of benign breast disease, a new study has found.

A combined hormone therapy estrogen plus progestin is already known to increase the risk of breast cancer but a major study of women able to use estrogen alone didn't find that link

Research done at Cornell University found a dozen compounds called Triterpenoids in an apple peel that could either inhibit or kill cancer cells in laboratory cultures.

Rui Hai Liu, Cornell's Associate Professor of Food Science and colleagues analyzed the peel from 230 pounds of Cornell Orchard red delicious apples, isolated their individual compounds, identified its structures and tested the pure compounds against cancer cell growth in the laboratory

Obesity may prevent some women from getting routine cancer screenings, according to a new University of North Carolina -Chapel Hill study.

The review was based on 32 U.S. studies on breast cancer, colorectal cancer and cervical cancer screening tests. It was found that obese white women were less likely than leaner women to get the recommended screenings for breast and cervical cancer. The trend, though, was not as consistent among black women