Breast Cancer

Advocate Radiation Oncology and Lee Health Regional Cancer Center partnered with other local organizations to host the tea to increase breast cancer awareness and to educate the Southwest Florida community on breast cancer research.

When actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus announced in she had been diagnosed with breast cancer last week, she did so alongside a sobering statistic: one in eight…

Hundreds of women in Florida will be able to get early screenings for breast cancer under a national program aimed at the uninsured. Three Florida...

Dr. Lea Blackwell of Fort Myers is a surgeon specializing in treating breast cancer patients.Through the years, she’s performed hundreds of mastectomies…

A community outreach worker from Moffitt Cancer Center will be honored Tuesday by President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. for improving public health…

While chemotherapy can be part of life-saving medical treatment for patients with cancer, it can create lingering side effects on one’s ability to think;…

News-Press columnist Melanie Payne is best known for her role as the paper’s consumer watchdog investigating unscrupulous business practices and the…

Ann Romney, the wife of Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney has been campaigning in Florida this week. On Thursday she made a stop at the Lee…