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Deb Merchant's unsung hero, Scott Stevens, was at her side through two separate battles with cancer.

Deb gave her boyfriend an 'opt out' option when she got cancer. He went another way

Apr 12, 2022
When Deb Merchant was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003 she gave her boyfriend a choice: he could "opt out" of their relationship. He had a simple response.
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Margarette Osias, 28, poses for a portrait in her office in Laurel, Delaware on February 22, 2022. Osias is a bilingual outreach navigator and medical interpreter at Tabitha Medical Care wherein they provide free universal cancer screening and treatment

Delaware is shrinking racial gaps in cancer death. Its secret? Patient navigators

Mar 07, 2022
The state's program of free cancer screening and treatment is reducing inequities. Key to its success is robust outreach by patient navigators who connect with those least likely to seek care.
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Radiation was another treatment that researchers were refining at the time. Gordon Isaacs was the first patient treated with the linear accelerator (radiation therapy) for retinoblastoma. Gordon's right eye was removed January 11, 1957 because the cancer

50 years ago, Nixon gave the U.S. a 'Christmas present,' launching the war on cancer

Dec 23, 2021
The National Cancer Act became law 50 years ago. Cancer went from shameful taboo to one of the best-funded areas of medicine. Much of the credit for this transformation goes to one woman, Mary Lasker.
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We're not dying of metastatic breast cancer. We're living with it

Dec 12, 2021
Getting diagnosed with incurable breast cancer didn't end this reporter's life — it just marked a new chapter. She and others with the diagnosis have insights that might help you, too.
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Suzanne Simard is a professor of forest ecology at the University of British Columbia. Her own medical journey inspired her research into, among other things, the way yew trees communicate chemically with neighboring trees for their mutual defense.

Trees Talk To Each Other. 'Mother Tree' Ecologist Hears Lessons For People, Too

May 04, 2021
Ecologist Suzanne Simard says trees are "social creatures" that communicate with each other in remarkable ways — including warning each other of danger and sharing nutrients at critical times.
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Coronavirus FAQs: Mammograms, Vaccine Ingredients ... And Dogs Who Sniff Masks

Feb 19, 2021
Are there issues with having a mammogram right after a vaccine? Is there a list of vaccine ingredients — some people say they're scary. Also: My pooch loves to sniff discarded masks. Should I worry?
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Karin Huster was diagnosed with breast cancer during the pandemic. As she yearned for human contact, memories of her work with Ebola patients in Africa came flooding back.

My Breast Cancer Diagnosis Came In The Pandemic. I Wanted More Than A 'Virtual Hug'

Oct 17, 2020
The diagnosis — delivered at a distance of 6 feet in the doctor's office — was a shock. It brought back memories of my work in the Ebola ward. Then as now, an intimate touch was a rare thing.
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Two days before Christine Rayburn was scheduled to have a cancerous tumor removed, the hospital cancelled the surgery, part of a wave of cancellations of "elective" surgeries during the coronavirus pandemic. But Rayburn's surgeon fought back, and got the

As Coronavirus Strains Hospitals, Cancer Patients Face Treatment Delays, Uncertainty

Apr 02, 2020
As hospitals are forced to delay or cancel certain medical procedures so they can focus resources on treatment of COVID-19, it's disrupting ongoing care for people with other serious illnesses.
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Progress On Lung Cancer Drives Historic Drop In U.S. Cancer Death Rate

Jan 08, 2020
The U.S. cancer death rate dropped more than 2% between 2016 and 2017, the biggest single-year drop ever, according to the American Cancer Society. Better treatment for lung cancer is a factor.
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Hair dyes and straighteners contain chemicals that are being studied for their health effects.

Hair Dyes And Straighteners Linked To Higher Cancer Risk, Especially For Black Women

Dec 04, 2019
Many women get their hair dyed or straightened regularly with products that contain thousands of chemicals. Researchers are teasing out whether our hair habits could be raising our breast cancer risk.
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Book Reviews
<em>The Undying: Pain, vulnerability, mortality, medicine, art, time, dreams, data, exhaustion, cancer, and care</em>, by Anne Boyer

'The Undying' Catalogs The Unceasing Losses Of A Breast Cancer Diagnosis

Sep 17, 2019
Arriving the year before an election that could set healthcare and disability policy for decades, Anne Boyer's memoir warns us of the human costs of any system that prioritizes profit over lives.
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Sada Jackson (left), with her mother Ileana Watson in October 2014, when Ileana and her three children participated in a family Breast Cancer Walk together.

'I Only Knew Her As Mom': A Daughter Learns More From Her Late Mother's Best Friend

May 10, 2019
Sada Jackson remembers her mother by talking to her mom's best friend, Angela Morehead-Mugita. Angela passes along advice to Sada that Sada's mom had once given to her.
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The newer 3D mammograms provide a more detailed picture of the breast tissue, leading to more precise detection of abnormalities.

When It's Time For A Mammogram, Should You Ask For 3D?

Apr 28, 2019
Evidence is growing that 3D mammography provides more precise images and is better at detecting breast cancer — but the jury is still out on whether it saves lives.
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"The optimist in me says in three years we can train this tool to read mammograms as well as an average radiologist," says Connie Lehman, chief of breast imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

Training A Computer To Read Mammograms As Well As A Doctor

Apr 01, 2019
Artificial intelligence is now being brought to bear on mammograms and could improve the accuracy of diagnoses. But previous computerized technology to do that didn't live up to the hype.
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Emily Garnett

'Not Letting It Define Us' — Walking The Runway With Metastatic Breast Cancer

Feb 17, 2019
At a recent fashion show, models came out about their diagnoses — revealing both cancer's scarring effects on their bodies, and their defiant embrace of life.
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Patients and advocates have become an important part of the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Commentary: How Patients Have Transformed A Medical Meeting About Breast Cancer

Dec 16, 2018
Advocates have become an essential part of the annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, an influential medical meeting. Former oncologist Elaine Schattner explains the change and its importance.
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Newscast headlines

Hospital To Use $10M Grant To Expand Breast Cancer Program

Dec 03, 2018

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A southern Nevada hospital foundation says it will use $10 million from a former casino owner's family to expand a breast cancer detection and treatment program for underinsured and uninsured patients.

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Catherine Guthrie decided not to get breast reconstruction after her double mastectomy in 2009. Not Putting on a Shirt is a grassroots advocacy organization that brings attention to the issue of surgeons disregarding breast cancer patients' wishes to go

She Chose To 'Go Flat' And Wants Other Breast Cancer Survivors To Know They Can Too

Nov 02, 2018
After her double mastectomy, writer Catherine Guthrie came to embrace her new body, without breast reconstruction. But, she has learned, women have to push the medical system to support this choice.
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Niasha Fray works on issues of health equity at Duke University. "Black women like me have to put on the armor of self-care," Fray says.

Why Are Black Women Less Likely To Stick With A Breast Cancer Follow-Up Treatment?

Oct 09, 2018
Black women are more likely to die from breast cancer than white women. One reason may be that they face economic and cultural barriers to taking the medications that can prevent recurrence.
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For This Knight, Bald Is Beautiful

Oct 05, 2018

Look at the hair on that guy, Vegas Golden Knight Pierre-Edouard Bellemare. He's about to lose it in a show of support for breast-cancer patients.

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Robert Greene of the HungerNDThirst Foundation shows cancer caregivers his photographs of plates with metal parts to help them understand the flavors chemo patients may be tasting.

Czech Company Designs A Nonalcoholic Beer To Taste Good To Cancer Patients

Jul 06, 2018
A nonalcoholic brew joins the growing market to help chemo patients overcome the changes in their palates that make food unappealing. And it just might help them feel better, too.
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Steyn's results showed she didn't have three variants that increase the risk for breast cancer. Critics say that these kits don't address thousands of other variants associated with the disease.

Results Of At-Home Genetic Tests For Health Can Be Hard To Interpret

Jun 18, 2018
As home genetic testing continues to boom, more people are getting their DNA tested for health reasons. The tests may signal future disease, but there are many limitations that might falsely reassure.
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A genetic test could spare many women with a common form of breast cancer from receiving chemotherapy.

Doctors Scrutinize Overtreatment, As Cancer Death Rates Decline

Jun 05, 2018
Are some people getting too much treatment for their cancers? The answer, from the American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago, is an emphatic yes.
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Perkins received tumor infiltrating lymphocytes as treatment in 2015.

Therapy Made From Patient's Immune System Shows Promise For Advanced Breast Cancer

Jun 04, 2018
An experimental therapy seems to have eradicated cancer in a patient with metastatic breast cancer who had failed every other treatment. The goal is to reliably repeat that success in more people.
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Women with a common form of breast cancer may be able to safely forgo chemotherapy, depending on the results of a genetic test.

For Some Breast Cancer Patients, The Chemo Decision Just Got Easier

Jun 03, 2018
Thousands of breast cancer patients could now safely avoid chemotherapy thanks to a major study of women with moderate risk of recurrence.

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