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11:16 AM, Jun 4, 2009

Monthly breast self-examinations, along with proper medical screenings, are crucial to detecting breast cancer in the early stages.

Bangor Breast Care Nurses Among First In Country To Get Certified

6:25 PM, Jun 2, 2009

BANGOR (NEWS CENTER) -- Three breast care nurse educators at Eastern Maine Medical Center are among the first in the country to receive certification by passing the certified breast care nurse examination.

Buddy to Buddy: Kick out cancer

7:09 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

8:00 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

4:15 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

6:42 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

1:50 PM, Jan 3, 2012

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

"Standing Tall Against Breast Cancer"

12:05 PM, Jan 3, 2012

The Imaging Department at Waldo County General Hospital has created a 2012 calendar in honor and memory of its many breast cancer patients.

New technology offers mammograms in 3D

2:16 PM, Jan 2, 2012

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

Ann Murray Paige

12:31 PM, Dec 23, 2011

Tips for coping with breast cancer from survivor and former WCSH 6 Reporter/ Anchor Ann Murray Paige. 

Pink Bibles recalled

2:20 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

4:11 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

10:56 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

2:42 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"

6:19 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

11:37 AM, 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

12:03 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

2:00 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

8:57 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

11:03 AM, 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

10:38 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

2:12 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?

Buddy to Buddy: Patients supporting patients

2:53 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

12:18 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.

Women want their radiation-targeting tattoos removed

9:58 AM, Oct 3, 2011

DANVILLE, Calif. (NBC) -- "First I had chemo then a double mastectomy, then radiation, then reconstruction surgery. It was a two year process," said breast cancer survivor Wendy Hoffman.

70-year-old battling cancer completes 56th marathon

6:35 PM, Oct 2, 2011

PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Among the thousands of runners who ran in the Maine Marathon, one 70-year-old runner was running for a cause very close to him.

New therapies offer alternative to surgery for skin cancer

2:46 PM, Sep 29, 2011

TAMPA (NBC) -- Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the country, affecting more than two million Americans each year.

Cancer Center expands in Ellsworth

6:15 PM, Sep 28, 2011

ELLSWORTH, Maine (NEWS CENTER)-- Good news for cancer patients in Hancock and Washington Counties. Maine Coast Memorial Hospital officials announced a 2.1 million dollar expansion project at the Mary Dow Center for Cancer.

School changes policy on bracelets

5:48 PM, Sep 23, 2011

WALDOBORO, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- School officials in Waldoboro have changed their rules, and will now allow high school students to wear controversial breast cancer awareness bracelets.