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Getty/Svittlana Kuchina (NEW YORK) — Since the first Breast Cancer Awareness Month initiatives kicked off 40 years ago, major improvements have been made in treating the disease. While the rates of women diagnosed with breast cancer have increased, death rates have been declining, and five-year survival rates have risen. Additionally, most breast cancer cases are being diagnosed […]

The Good Brigade/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Oct.1 marks the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the American Cancer Society (ACS) is commemorating 40 years of spreading awareness about the condition. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among women, with one in eight developing breast cancer in her lifetime, according to the […]

Elijah Nouvelage/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new vaccine being studied in early clinical trials may hold the potential to help some women with breast cancer, a disease that affects one in every eight women in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The vaccine, which has not […]