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Groups want breast cancer awareness motorcycle plate

4:22 PM, May 7, 2012

FALMOUTH, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- There's an effort underway to match the success of the Maine Breast Cancer specialty license plate with a plate just for motorcycles.

Fight Breast Cancer event planned

4:43 PM, May 2, 2012

BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER)-- When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, the whole family helps battle the disease. An event happening on Mother's Day is hoping to bring families who have been affected by breast cancer together.

Device helps chemo patients keep their hair

12:54 PM, Apr 24, 2012

(KXAS) - A woman's hair is one of her most identifying features, so it makes sense that hair loss can be an emotionally devastating side effect of chemotherapy.

Buddy to Buddy: The Peleton Project

7:59 PM, Apr 6, 2012

AUBURN, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- We're 6 months away from the Dempsey Challenge, but cycling enthusiasts are already training for the October ride. There's a special group about 2,500 miles away bringing something extra to Lewiston this year.

Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure 2012

4:08 PM, Mar 29, 2012

The Race is September 9 around Back Cove in Portland (starting at Payson Park). Register to race, or sign up to volunteer, today!

More options available for breast cancer patients

7:31 PM, Mar 6, 2012

WATERVILLE, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- When a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, the primary goal is treating and surviving the cancer.

Making breast reconstruction easier

5:18 PM, Mar 6, 2012

Making it simpler and easier for breast cancer patients.

Women walking 40 miles to raise money for breast cancer

2:37 PM, Mar 2, 2012

Most people would try to avoid walking 40 miles.  Very few people would pay close to two thousand dollars to do it.  But four local women are raising the money and breaking in their walking shoes for breast cancer research.  NEWS CENTER'S Danielle Waugh has their story.

Buddy to Buddy: Kick out cancer

8:09 PM, Feb 6, 2012

AUGUSTA, Maine (NEWS CENTER) - A karate expert is using his schools to raise money to kick back at cancer.

Boston lawsuit claims DES-breast cancer link

9:00 PM, Jan 8, 2012

BOSTON (AP) -- Arline MacCormack believes the drug her mother took to prevent miscarriages caused her to develop breast cancer at age 44.

Medical community still divided on federal mammogram guidelines

5:15 PM, Jan 6, 2012

PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- It's been more than 2 years since a government task force, looking at years of data on breast cancer, came out with new guidelines for mammograms that contradicted those of the American Cancer Society.

Waldo County hospital creates breast cancer calendar to raise awareness

7:42 PM, Jan 3, 2012

BELFAST, Maine (NEWS CENTER) --- A new year means that many Mainers will have to hang a new calender on the wall, and this year workers at Waldo County General Hospital have put together one that's pretty amazing.

Doctors freeze out cancer, cut back treatment side effects

2:50 PM, Jan 3, 2012

(WKYC) - Susan Saurman's remission with breast cancer ended this past April when the cancer returned in her bones.

New technology offers mammograms in 3D

3:16 PM, Jan 2, 2012

(WKYC) - Women can now spot breast cancer earlier thanks to 3D mammograms.  The new technology is called "tomosynthesis".

Pink Bibles recalled

3:20 PM, Dec 16, 2011

NASHVILLE, TN -- We made a mistake," said Lifeway Christian Resources President and CEO Thom S. Ranier in a statement posted on the company's website.

Fewer women are getting mammograms

5:11 PM, Dec 7, 2011

GRAY, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- It's a scary thought for medical care providers: women nationally seem to be getting fewer mammograms.

Test aids doctors in spotting breast cancer at the earliest stages

11:56 AM, Dec 7, 2011

(NBC) -- It wasn't until women started having routine mammograms that Doctors were able to spot it: A type of breast cancer called Ductal Carcinoma in SITU, often called stage zero breast cancer.

Breast cancer survivors are upset that their body portraits are banned

3:42 PM, Nov 23, 2011

(NBC) -- A group of breast cancer survivors say their self expression is not pornography.

Buddy to Buddy: Ann Murray Paige's "Pink Tips"

7:19 PM, Nov 7, 2011

PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Former NEWS CENTER anchor and reporter Ann Murray Paige is battling breast cancer ... for a second time.

Integrated Breast Cancer Care

12:37 PM, Nov 3, 2011

We'll talk with two health professionals on the front lines in the fight against breast cancer.

New cancer surgery leaves more breast intact

1:03 PM, Nov 2, 2011

(WRC) - For women diagnosed with breast cancer, they're often left with few options when it comes to treatment.

Study finds no increased risk of breast cancer to women who don't carry specific gene

3:00 PM, Nov 1, 2011

(NBC) -- Testing for the breast cancer gene has given women the opportunity to take their health into their own hands, providing options for preventing the disease where before all they could do was treat it.

Former NEWS CENTER Anchor shares Pink Tips

9:57 PM, Oct 23, 2011

BIDDEFORD, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Former NEWS CENTER Anchor Ann Murray Paige returned to Maine Sunday night sharing thoughts on her book "Pink Tips" with friends, family and others living with Cancer.

More than half of women get called back after mammograms

12:03 PM, Oct 18, 2011

(NBC) -- Research shows more than half of women who have yearly mammograms starting at age forty have at least one false positive.

Beating Cancer: FAQ from the on-line chat

11:38 PM, Oct 8, 2011

Questions and answers from the live web chat during Cutting Edge: Beating Breast and Prostate Cancer.

Blood test may detect risk for cancer

3:12 PM, Oct 6, 2011

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Imagine if there were a blood test that could determine whether you're at risk for cancer?

Maine's breast reconstruction rate low compared to other states

2:47 PM, Oct 6, 2011

PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Maine's breast reconstruction rate after mastectomy is only 25 percent. That's half, even a third of many other states, where 50 to 75 percent get reconstruction.

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Cutting Edge: Beating Breast and Prostate Cancer

4:01 PM, Oct 3, 2011

Cutting Edge is a primetime special on Saturday, October 8, 8:00 p.m.

Buddy to Buddy: Patients supporting patients

3:53 PM, Oct 3, 2011

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- People affected by cancer are supporting one another at the Cancer Community Center.

Breast cancer diagnosis and treatment: new options found through innovative thinking

1:18 PM, Oct 3, 2011

With breast cancer as the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women in the United States, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies are investing time, energy and huge amounts of money into crafting innovative new breast cancer diagnosis and treatment options.