BREAST HEALTH

9 good reasons to be sober curious. Being sober curious means, literally, to choose to question, or get curious about, every impulse, invitation and expectation to drink, versus mindlessly going along with the dominant drinking culture.

Here are 3 updates from the latest research on exercise and breast cancer prevention.

Breast cancer in men is a rare disease, but it is often more advanced at diagnosis compared to breast cancer in women. Why? Because many men do not realise that “breast cancer can happen to a bloke”.

There are some important lessons we can learn from Blanche, Kylie and Angelina about being breast aware.

Here are 3 updates from the latest research on the link between fibre, sugary drinks and coffee and breast cancer.

Our “girls” are with us for the long haul. They are with us as youngsters, as we eagerly await our first training bra. They are an endless source of male fascination in our dating years. They nourish our babies when we nurse and they are fundamentally what makes us well … female.

Queenslander Bianca Innes became the youngest Australian diagnosed with breast cancer at the young age of 20. Whilst breast cancer is far less common in young women, there are still over 900 women under the age of 40 who are diagnosed with breast cancer each year in Australia.

Around 1 in 10 cases of female breast cancer is due to a faulty gene passed through families from one generation to the next. Here are 5 common myths about hereditary breast cancer.