Of women aged 40 years or older without breast cancer, 3% carry pathogenic variants in breast cancer risk genes — including many with no red flags in their family history.

Younger women face a persistent, underestimated breast cancer risk that demands earlier and more tailored screening.

Younger women are being diagnosed with breast cancer more often than screening guidelines anticipate. Many of these cancers ...

Most women have never heard of their prostate, let alone considered that they could develop prostate cancer. But buried in female anatomy are small structures called Skene’s glands that develop from ...

Data suggest that 1 in 20 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime, and 1 in 70 will die from the disease. Researchers are projecting that, worldwide, new cases of female breast ...

Newsweek spoke with experts who said that women under 50 make up about a quarter of breast cancer cases in America.

Using menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) was not associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in women with inherited mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, according to the results of a matched ...

People assigned female at birth can't get prostate cancer because they don't have a prostate gland. However, women can get a rare type of cancer that develops in the Skene's glands, a pair of organs ...

In Estonia, breast cancer screening is offered from the age of 50, yet one-fifth of first diagnoses occur in younger women. A ...