Breast Cancer Videos
- Inside the Body: Benefits of Movement
Regular exercise helps your body and your brain in multiple ways.
- A Look at HER2+ Breast Cancer
Roughly 1 in 5 breast cancers are HER2+, meaning the diseased cells in your breast grow and divide uncontrollably.
- How Targeted Therapies for Metastatic Breast Cancer Work
There are several kinds, but targeted therapies can slow cancer growth. Find out how these treatments can help.
- Metastatic Breast Cancer: Tips for a Healthy Diet
A balanced diet packed with nutrients will help your body heal during cancer treatment.
- Metastatic Breast Cancer: What to Know After Diagnosis
Once you have a treatment plan in place, a lot of your anxiety will subside, says Kathleen Harnden, MD.
- Fight Fatigue During Treatment for Metastatic Breast Cancer
Cancer treatment zaps your energy, but there are ways to recharge and get the rest you need.
- What Is Metastatic Breast Cancer?
What makes breast cancer stage IV? And how does that impact your treatment plan?
- What Happens When Breast Cancer Spreads
The type of breast cancer plays a role in when it becomes metastatic.
- Stage IV Breast Cancer Treatment Options
An oncologist lays out what to consider before stage IV breast cancer treatment, and how the right option can help manage symptoms and maintain your quality of life.
- Find the Right Metastatic Breast Cancer Treatment for You
The most effective treatment depends on what type of breast cancer you have. An oncologist explains what factors come into play when making a decision.
- What Happens With Bone Metastasis?
Bones are a common site for breast cancer to spread. How do doctors manage the pain?
- The Truth About Breast Cancer Treatments
Does everyone with breast cancer need a mastectomy? Can it come back afterward? The answers to common questions surrounding breast cancer treatments.
- Where Can Metastatic Breast Cancer Spread?
If breast cancer spreads, it usually goes to one or more of these body parts.
- What Determines Your Stage of Breast Cancer?
How big is your tumor? Has the cancer spread? Here’s a list of questions your doctor will consider when diagnosing a stage.
- Metastatic Breast Cancer: Best Therapy for Me
What are my treatment options for advanced breast cancer?
- Beyond Treatment: Lean on Your Team
What resources can you rely on outside of friends and family? Different members of your care team can help connect you to your needs.
- Managing Pain
Even mild pain can be disruptive, so it’s important to track it and then find the best treatment with the least amount of side effects.
- How Life Changes
Life after a cancer diagnosis will not only change how you feel, but what day-to-day tasks you should take on.
- How to Talk to Family About Your Cancer
Before you sit down with family to discuss a cancer diagnosis, know you’re not alone.
- What Not to Say to Someone With Advanced Breast Cancer
Be careful about how you speak around someone who’s dealing with breast cancer. These four tips can help you be of service and show you care.
- Palliative Care: An Option Worth Considering
How does this “blanket of support” help ease the emotional and physical strain of living with an illness?
- Advanced HER2-Negative Breast Cancer Treatments
What treatments work best if you’ve been diagnosed with either HER2-positive or HER2-negative breast cancer?
- Cutting-Edge Treatment for HER2-Negative Cancer
HER2-negative cancer treatments not only have advanced, but they're also much easier to take.
- Treating The Side Effects
Curb these common discomforts that can arise after cancer treatment.
- Finding Support
The moments you turn inward can be the most crucial time to reach out to others for help.
- The Role of Hormone Receptors in Breast Cancer
How do doctors use hormone therapy to slow the growth of tumors?
- How Clinical Trials Work
Clinical trials test the safety and effectiveness of new treatments. What qualifies you for one, and what’s the process like?
- 5 Must-Know Breast Cancer Facts
What lowers your chances of getting breast cancer? Learn this and a few more facts about this disease.
- 5 Must-Share Men’s Breast Cancer Facts
How many males become diagnosed with breast cancer compared to females?
- How to Stretch After Breast Cancer Surgery
Ask your doctor if these gentle, post-surgery moves are right for you.
- What to Expect: Breast Cancer
One survivor’s story on her cancer treatment and how she found support and hope in a scary situation.
- Early Breast Cancer and Watchful Waiting
With an early, stage 0 form of breast cancer, should you attack it head-on or keep a close eye?
- Breast Cancer Genetics
Cecelia Bellcross, PhD discusses genetic testing for breast cancer.
- Angelina Jolie and the Power of the Informed Decision
Dr. Kathy Miller comments on the importance of genetic testing in women at high risk for breast cancer so that they can make personal, informed decisions about their care, as Angelina Jolie has done.
- Improving Appetite After Treatment
Cancer survivor Dr. Julie Silver explains how to kickstart your appetite after cancer treatment.
- Improve Sleep When You Have Cancer
Cancer survivor Dr. Julie Silver has tips for better sleep while recovering from cancer.
- When Cancer Pain Returns
Julie Silver talks about when cancer pain returns.
- Cancer and Sleep Problems
Dr. Julie Silver, a cancer survivor, explains the critical need for sleep during and after cancer treatment.
- Handling the Stress of Cancer
Julie Silver talks about how to cope with stress associated with having cancer.
- Understanding Cancer Supplements
Julie Silver, MD, a cancer survivor, cautions against supplements while undergoing cancer treatment.
- The Pain of Cancer Treatment
Julie Silver, MD, a cancer survivor, talks about the pain associated with cancer treatment.
- Do I Have to Live With Fatigue?
As a cancer survivor herself, Dr. Julie Silver knows how hard it is to manage fatigue after cancer treatments.
- What Is Lymphedema?
Cancer survivor Dr. Julie Silver tells you what you need to know about lymphedema.
- Coping With Memory Loss and Cancer
Dr. Julie Silver, a cancer survivor, has personal knowledge on how to cope with chemo-induced memory loss .
- Hurtful Comments
Julie Silver, MD, a cancer survivor, talks about the impact of well-meaning but hurtful comments.
- Will I Ever Be the Same?
As a cancer survivor, Dr. Julie Silver has tips on how to return to your old self after cancer treatment.
- Cancer Diagnosis and the Family
Dr. Julie Silver, a cancer survivor, offers advice on helping your family cope with your cancer diagnosis.
- Mammograms - How Often?
Laura Corio, MD, explains how often a woman should have a mammogram.
- Breast Cancer & Bioidentical Hormones
Ob-Gyn Laura Corio discusses whether there is a link between bioidentical hormones and breast cancer.