I’m always amazed when a woman who knows she has breast cancer asks if she can wait to start treatment.   There isn’t a perfect answer

We are often told environmental chemicals are safe because we are exposed to concentrations “too low” to cause harm.  Toxicologists call such a low concentration

Recently I gave a talk in St. Petersburg, Russia discussing the place of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) in breast surgery today.  As I prepared

How health policy can delay diagnosis. “Local Recurrence” is the term used when cancer grows back in a woman’s breast after breast conserving treatment of

California women who have dense breasts on their mammograms are currently receiving written notification that they have “dense breasts.”  Some institutions are notifying all women

Would you walk 30 minutes every day to live a year longer? That ‘s the starting benefit of moderate exercise.  You gain more if you