breast cancer

Lifestyle factors like staying in shape — and getting enough sleep — play a role in preventing breast cancer and other cancers

Time for some good news for Canadian women needing regular mammograms: Health Canada recently approved the Sectra MicroDose Mammography machines, which provide the highest image resolution with just half the radiation.

"You can never know when or how you'll die. You can only choose how you'll live." — Leanne Coppen

Since the disease is the leading cause of cancer death in women under 50, a diagnosis can be particularly hard to swallow for younger women.

We've made some powerful strides against breast cancer and cervical cancer in Canada and other developed countries — in this country, for example, rates of death from breast cancer have dropped in all age groups since the 1980s as detection rates and treatment options have improved.