BREAST CANCER MORTALITY IS DROPPING, but are you doing all you can to reduce your risk of getting (and dying) from the disease?

Much less known, but every bit as real and life-threatening is the connection between obesity and malignancy, the general medical term for cancer.

Half of all women experience false-positive mammograms after ten years of annual screening.

Mammary glands, which are located in the breast overlying the pectoralis major muscles, are present in both sexes, but usually are functional only in the female.