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Women who used GLP-1 medications were about 30 percent less likely to develop breast cancer than similar women who did not use the drugs, according to a new retrospective study led by researchers at University of Pennsylvania

Low doses of vitamin D can enhance the effectiveness of chemotherapy given to women being treated for breast cancer.

Patients with a variety of solid tumors saw cancerous tumors that a had spread to other parts of their bodies shrink when the primary tumor was injected with a re-engineered antibody immunotherapy.

Individually-tailored risk-based screening may be a more efficient way to screen for breast cancer. Image credit – National Cancer Institute CANCER DIGEST – Jan. 18, 2026 – Tailoring breast cancer screening to individual risk factors as opposed to relying on age guidelines may be a better way to reduce the chance of advanced cancer at diagnosis, a major screening study shows. The WISDOM study enrolled 46,000 women from all 50 states between 2016 and 2023. The aim was to compa

Women under 50 are being diagnosed with cancer more often than screening guidelines predict, with a large percentage of these cancers being invasive and harder to treat.

Women diagnosed with breast cancer have a higher risk of aggressive and hard to treat cancers if they live near an EPA designated Superfund site.

Using repurposed FDA-approved drugs, researchers were able to eliminate residual cancer in breast cancer survivors.

A new study suggests that a single workout session can produce a powerful anti-cancer effect in breast cancer survivors by triggering the release of specific proteins produced by muscle cells.

Deaths from obesity-linked cancers have tripled in two decades – Photo credit Unsplash Media CANCER DIGEST – July 20, 2025 – Cancers...

Adding enhanced imaging for breast cancer screening for women with dense breasts could triple the rate of early cancer detection among these women.