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Browsing: Cancer
Kate Middleton Announces Battle With Cancer: The Side Effects She May Face with Chemotherapy
Cancer affects so many in the world. By 2020, an estimated 1.8 million people were suffering. It is difficult to…
Film Star Olivia Munn Opts For Double Mastectomy to Treat Breast Cancer What Are Your Options
Perhaps you remember her face from her early days on “Attack of the Show,” or a smidge later as she…
Deanna Denham Hughes was stunned when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer last year. She was only 32. She had…
What Can I Do About Vaginal Dryness?
When Pat (now 71) was in her 40s, her vaginal dryness became so severe that the vaginal tissue would flare…
Hispanic Health Risks
This month, we celebrate what makes Hispanic heritage wonderful and unique. We’d like to bring up another way to acknowledge…
Breast Cancer Surgery: tips from the front lines
A friend of mine has breast cancer. When she shared the news with our friends she told us she was…
Angela Ridgel, PhD, an exercise physiologist at Kent State University, usually helps patients exercise at the gym, while studying how…
When Lily was diagnosed with cervical cancer at age 27, she blamed herself. “Why hadn’t I taken care of myself…
A new chemotherapy drug promises to treat some patients with pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who have been unable to…
May 26 Update: Only 62.6% of patients taking methotrexate, an immunosuppressant drug used in some cancer patients, mounted an effective…
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