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(MedPage Today) -- Women who have lipofilling after conservative breast cancer treatment face no greater risk of locoregional disease recurrence than those who do not undergo lipofilling, according to European plastic surgeons.

An American woman has a 12.6% chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime, and the American Cancer Society says about 207,000 new invasive breast cancers were diagnosed in 2010.

SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) -- Resection of breast cancer liver metastases paid off in a survival benefit in patients with chemotherapy-responsive, estrogen receptor-positive primary tumors, data from a retrospective chart review showed.

(University of Michigan Health System) Even when women at high-risk of breast cancer are well-informed about the risks and benefits of using the drug tamoxifen for prevention, only 6 percent said they were likely to take it.

Nearly half of breast cancer survivors are plagued by persistent pain years after cancer surgery, researchers found.

(Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada) A team of Canadian cardiologists, in collaboration with oncologists, are playing an important role in the war against breast cancer Dr.

Michael McDonald told the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2009, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society.

(Albert Einstein College of Medicine) Elevated insulin levels in the blood appear to raise the risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women, according to researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University.

(University of North Carolina School of Medicine) A new study, published in the May 14 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, shows that chemotherapy in addition to surgery or surgery and radiation improves survival among older women with breast cancer.