Science news articles about 'breast cancer mortality rates'

... health education may be the key to lowering breast cancer mortality rates in Washington, D.C., ... students increase their comfort and ability to perform a breast self exam by 39 percent and their ability ...

... what we have built, but without a sufficient number of radiologists and radiologic techs who specialize in breast imaging, breast cancer mortality rates could increase," said Langelier and Wing.

... women continue to suffer a high breast cancer mortality rate, even though the incidence ... women were diagnosed with disease that had not spread beyond the breast, only 52.4 percent of African-American ...

... women in taking the hormonal therapy as prescribed," Kimmick said. "If we can improve use of these very effective treatments, we may decrease the breast cancer mortality rate among this population."

... treatment options. "Breast cancer mortality rates are actually declining, but the cancers that don't ... diagnosed in women in the United States. The National Cancer Institute estimates that 40,170 women ...

... The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. The study, presented in a poster discussion ... . ACS also reports that overall breast cancer mortality rates are lower in Hispanic women than white ...

... and the laboratory continue to work to drive breast cancer mortality rates down with breakthrough drugs. With ... the combination group. Overall clinical benefit rate increased from 28.7 percent to 48.7 ...