Spokane Valley resident Mauricea Bozarth credits her commitment to a regular mammogram to catching breast cancer early, just before the pandemic. But she almost put it off from being busy. During the pandemic, the weekly number of breast cancer diagnosis from screenings had dropped nearly 52% by August.

Kelly Preston, who played dramatic and comic foil to actors ranging from Tom Cruise in “Jerry Maguire” to Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Twins,” died Sunday, husband John Travolta said. She was 57.

Staying indoors in the midst of a global pandemic is literally a matter of life or death for people with underlying health conditions. Helen Black, who has stage four breast cancer and a son with underlying health conditions, knows the quarantine drill well and hopes others will do their part.

A Spokane-based study found that a healthy body’s biological clock plays a role in protecting the heart against the toxicity of radiation treatment in mice.

More patients at Lincoln Hospital and clinics will have access to preventive breast cancer screening in the new year thanks to the hospital’s recently installed 3D mammography machine.

Doctors on Wednesday reported unusually good results from tests of two experimental drugs in women with an aggressive form of breast cancer that had spread widely and resisted many previous treatments.

“It’s just such a privilege and honor that women share their journeys with you,” Guthrie said. “And they’re very vulnerable, and I’m just amazed by how strong they are, and how courageous they are, and how many of them just take it in stride.”

“It’s just such a privilege and honor that women share their journeys with you,” Guthrie said. “And they’re very vulnerable, and I’m just amazed by how strong they are, and how courageous they are, and how many of them just take it in stride.”

Countless breast cancer patients in the future will be spared millions of dollars of chemotherapy thanks in part to something that millions of Americans did that cost them just pennies: bought a postage stamp.

Most women with the most common form of early-stage breast cancer can safely skip chemotherapy without hurting their chances of beating the disease, doctors are reporting from a landmark study that used genetic testing to gauge each patient’s risk.

U.S. regulators have approved the first drug aimed at women with advanced breast cancer caused by an inherited flawed gene.

Modern birth control pills that are lower in estrogen have fewer side effects than past oral contraceptives. But a large Danish study suggests that, like older pills, they still modestly raise the risk of breast cancer, especially with long-term use.

Dr. Stephen Thatcher is a radiation oncologist at Cancer Care Northwest in Spokane. In a Q & A, he covers some of the latest updates for breast cancer screening, genetic testing and treatments.

Production on the seventh and final season of HBO’s “Veep” has been postponed while its star, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, undergoes treatment for breast cancer.

Valerie Bunt doesn’t look like your typical breast cancer survivor.

Longtime “Queen of the Bitches” Kathie Bross has passed away, her purple tiara passing to a successor.

Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center is getting rid of its “mammography coach,” the mobile radiology lab that has provided women across the Inland Northwest with breast cancer and osteoporosis screenings for 17 years.

Just one glass of wine or other alcoholic drink a day significantly raises the risk of breast cancer, while vigorous exercise such as running and bicycling reduces it, according to an expansive review of research on the effects of diet, nutrition and physical activity on the disease.