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Switching Hormonal Therapies

Gynecologist Stacy Tessler Lindau, MD, is director of a program in integrative sexual medicine for women and girls with cancer.

Studies suggest BTK inhibitors and hormone therapy might lessen disease severity and speed recovery.

Stay in touch with your cancer care team about how the new pandemic will affect you and your treatment.

Former Air Force senior master sergeant Sheila McGlown, 53, has metastatic breast cancer. She lives with her husband near St. Louis.

Maturing eggs in a lab allows a French woman to have a baby years after breast cancer.

Men who took Zytiga had higher quality of life scores and less pain than those treated with chemotherapy.

An analysis of nearly 200,000 women followed for a decade found that those who lost as few as five pounds had a lower risk.

Task force recommends BRCA screening for women at increased cancer risk

Treatment depends on how advanced the cancer is when detected and whether it has spread elsewhere in the body.

Emily Garnett, 34, is a mom, wife and lawyer turned writer and podcast host living with metastatic breast cancer near New York City.

Two androgen receptor inhibitors improved survival by 33% in men with metastatic prostate cancer that responds to hormone therapy.

Even cancer that doesn’t affect the bones directly can contribute to bone problems.

Robert Ginyard, 57, lives in Baltimore with his wife and two children.

Task force says some women can benefit from risk-reducing drugs like tamoxifen, but women at average risk should not take them.