Breast Cancer

Jenna Fischer reveals she has been undergoing surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatment for stage 1 triple-positive breast cancer after a diagnosis last year.

Yanchep local Pauline Wimsett has to travel vast distances from her home to access cancer treatment, often at great expense. But a free shuttle service has changed her life.

For Dannii Minogue, it's not just a great pop song, it's a reminder of her sister's strength and the power of the community that surrounds them.

After being diagnosed with breast cancer, some people are immediately thrust into having to make a decision about what to do after their breasts are removed. But not everyone is being offered the same choices.

Not all voices carry in the same way; not everyone has clout: Macpherson does, and while she is right to say that she's entitled to tell her story, it's also true that it's dangerous to shout "fire" in a crowded theatre.

Elle Macpherson has shared her life lessons in a new memoir, but revelations about her breast cancer treatment have come under fire from experts.

Sheree has booked in for breast reconstruction surgery after cancer. But it's been a difficult three-and-a-half-year wait.

A temporary lingerie store in western Queensland is supporting women in more ways than one.

For country women, buying a new bra isn't as easy as popping down to the shops; many women have never been professionally fitted. But a trailer full of bras trucked to the bush changed that. 

Thanks to a "miracle" gesture from strangers, Joanne and her family were given a place to live while she battles serious health problems; but with her lease about to run out, she is again facing homelessness — in an "exceptionally challenging" rental market.

Women undergoing mammograms through SA's statewide breast screening program are being forced to wait more than twice as long as expected for results, with authorities now urgently recruiting extra radiologists to reduce delays.

Parents who lost their seven-year-old son just before Christmas when he was hit by a car while walking home with his sisters are urging the NSW government make the Sturt Highway safer.

The former South Australian Human Services minister has revealed the diagnosis came as a shock but she has no plans to stop serving as a shadow minister.

The US is recommending women get regular breast cancer screening from the age of 40. Australia already does this but it's the country's best-kept secret. 

Lois Garner could predict the physical battle breast cancer would pose, but she wasn't prepared for the mental toll and says a familiar phrase made her feel more isolated. 

Lack of data about the impact of cancer treatments on fertility and ovarian function is an "enormous oversight" and a "disservice to women," experts say.

Munn is about 20 years younger than Australia's average age of diagnosis which, according to the Cancer Council, is 62 years old.

When ABC journalist Mary Lloyd found out she had two different types of breast cancer, it came as a shock. She had no idea there was more than one kind.

A new study argues feminist language is being co-opted to sell health interventions that aren't backed up by evidence — like the anti-Müllerian hormone "egg timer" test.

More Australians are able to undertake tests that help determine hidden health risks, but doing so can make it hard for them to get life insurance, leaving a difficult choice.