Susan G. Komen for the Cure

Breast Cancer Gene: Why Most Women Can't Do What Jolie Did

When it comes to breast cancer, your health care can be trumped by your finances: Even if your best bet is to follow in Angelia Jolie's footsteps, you may not be able to.

Breast Cancer's Financial Toll: Where to Go for Help

A breast cancer diagnosis can be like an earthquake in the life of the patient and her family, but the medical community is there to help guide them. What's often hard to find is a monetary lifeline for those in danger of getting washed away by the financial tidal wave that can follow.

Perfume to Benefit Breast Cancer May Also Cause Cancer

The Susan G. Komen Foundation's partnerships bring in millions each year for breast cancer research. But one of its partners has brought it an ironic problem: The perfume Promise Me, marketed to benefit the charity, contains a hormone disruptor that studies point to as a contributing cause of breast cancer.