Bringing Awareness to Breast Cancer in October
Breast cancer can be a scary diagnosis. Even though mortality rates have declined in recent years in the United...
Editors’ Picks, February 2025: Improving CAR T, Studying Breast Cancer Risk, and More
This month, the editors of AACR's journals show their love for studies about CAR T-cell efficacy, breast cancer risk,...
Clinical Trials Are Testing Ways to Prevent Breast Cancer
At the 2024 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, researchers discussed clinical trials for vaccines and other ways to prevent...
Editors’ Picks, June 2025: Intercepting Pancreatic Cancer, Predicting Breast Cancer, and More
For June 2025, the editors of AACR's journals highlighted studies on pancreatic cancer interception, breast cancer risk prediction, and...
Understanding Inherited Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States. In 2018, 266,120 women and 2,550 men...
San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium: What’s New This Year?
SABCS co-chair and AACR President Carlos L. Arteaga, MD, shares his views on this year's symposium and what the...
SABCS 2014: Immunotherapy Shows Early Promise for Triple-negative Breast Cancer Patients
After making great strides for some patients with melanoma and lung cancer, immunotherapy drugs are starting to offer hope...
Sexual Health and Other Lifestyle Considerations for Breast Cancer Survivors
At the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, experts discussed the implications of sexual health, supplements, exercise, and diet for...
SABCS 2022: When Treating Breast Cancer, Less May Be More
Cancer treatment is a double-edged sword. Intense or multi-pronged treatment may lead to better killing of tumor cells, but...
SABCS 2015: Less Treatment Is More for Early-stage Breast Cancer
Breast-conserving surgery may be a better option than mastectomy for patients with early-stage breast cancer.
Unique Considerations for Patients with Early-onset Breast Cancer
Researchers at the 2024 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium discussed considerations for treating and managing of early-onset breast cancer.
Tackling Breast Cancer Health Disparities for Hispanics/Latinas
Research has fueled significant progress against breast cancer—the overall five-year survival rate for female breast cancer patients in the...
Increasing Awareness of Breast Cancer Health Disparities
This month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a type of cancer against which we have made much progress. However,...
Pausing Breast Cancer Treatment to Get Pregnant, and Other News from SABCS 2022
Amy Bianchi discovered a lump in her breast when her first child was 18 months old. She was diagnosed...
AACR Disparities Meeting: The Impact of Structural Racism on Breast Cancer Outcomes
Due to advances in screening and treatment, the survival rate for patients with breast cancer has increased in recent decades. However, this progress...
SABCS 2025 Session Makes Sense of Rapidly Evolving Therapeutic Landscape for Breast Cancer
At the SABCS 2025 View From the Trenches session, experts discussed how new clinical trial results might transform breast...
Making the Right Treatment Choices for Metastatic Breast Cancer
The signature pink ribbons of Breast Cancer Awareness Month have become almost as much a part of October as...
SABCS 2022: The Uncharted Territory of HER2-low Breast Cancer
Imagine a series of switches on a wall. When a patient is diagnosed with cancer, physicians often decide which...
Apps and Acupuncture: Improving Breast Cancer Survivors’ Quality of Life
In clinical trials presented at SABCS, a mobile health tool and acupuncture helped to improve breast cancer survivors' quality...
SABCS 2021: The ‘Macro’ and ‘Micro’ of the Breast Cancer Stroma
Surrounding a tumor is a vast network of blood vessels, immune cells, proteins, and even bacteria, all of which...
A History of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
Guest Post by Kent Osborne, MD Director of the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine;...
Endocrine Therapy in Breast Cancer: Making Sense of the ‘Word Salad’
About 80 percent of breast cancers express the estrogen receptor (ER). In ER-positive tumors, estrogen is the main driver...
A Family Affair: Breast Cancer Prevention for Mothers, Daughters, and Women of All Ages
Guest Post by Graham A. Colditz, MD, DrPH Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School...
AACR and LBCA Facilitate Research Into Understudied Form of Breast Cancer
Lobular breast cancer accounts for 15% of all breast cancer cases, but it is understudied.
Can Some Breast Cancer Patients Skip MRI or Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy?
At SABCS 2025, studies show some patients with early-stage breast cancer can skip steps like SLNB or MRI without...
Breast Cancer Physician-scientist Dedicated to Developing DCIS Vaccine
Sasha Stanton, MD, PhD, is a breast cancer physician-scientist dedicated to developing a DCIS vaccine.
SABCS 2015: Attendees From 95 Countries Leave With Latest Breast Cancer Information
Breast cancer researchers are packed up in San Antonio, eager to build on the latest information they gathered at...
AACR Grantee Spotlight: Adwoa Mensah’s Mission to Improve Breast Cancer Screening in Ghana
Adwoa Bemah Boamah Mensah, PhD, received a BIG Cat grant from the AACR to help her efforts to improve...
SABCS 2020: Managing Breast Cancer During the COVID-19 Pandemic
As we approach the end of the year that was consumed by the pandemic, more than 68 million people...
SABCS 2022: Panelists Discuss Strategies to Overcome Top Obstacles in Breast Cancer Management
Researchers, physicians, patients, and other stakeholders convened in San Antonio, Texas, December 6-10 for the annual San Antonio Breast...