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Did you know Colorectal Cancer incidence and mortality rates are highest in African Americans?

Did you know Colorectal Cancer incidence and mortality rates are highest in African Americans?

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Book Review: The Healing Power of Writing About Cancer

Book Review: The Healing Power of Writing About Cancer

The main point in Susan Gubar’s book Reading & Writing Cancer: How Words Heal is the healing nature of dealing with cancer through the…
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Pregnancy After Cancer: New Directions in Fertility Preservation

Pregnancy After Cancer: New Directions in Fertility Preservation

Rosaria Usini was 23 years old, had just finished college, and was beginning her teaching career when she heard the words she dreaded most…
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What Is a Patient Navigator?

What Is a Patient Navigator?

The term “patient navigator” seems to be popping up more often in articles about healthcare. Just who, or what, is a patient navigator…
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Online Communities: Reaching Out to Others from the Comfort of Your Home

Online Communities: Reaching Out to Others from the Comfort of Your Home

Online communities can play an important role in your cancer experience and your survivorship. For a newly diagnosed patient…
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Patient Stories
Run Your Race: What It Means to Be a Care Partner

Run Your Race: What It Means to Be a Care Partner

Here is some valuable advice regarding being a care partner. Kristin Ainsworth learns that taking care of her husband, who was diagnosed…
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Pregnancy After Cancer: New Directions in Fertility Preservation

Pregnancy After Cancer: New Directions in Fertility Preservation

Rosaria Usini was 23 years old, had just finished college, and was beginning her teaching career when she heard the words she dreaded most…
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CQ Editor’s Choice
Dragon Boat Racing Keeps Lori Thriving After a Liver Cancer Diagnosis

Dragon Boat Racing Keeps Lori Thriving After a Liver Cancer Diagnosis

Lori Plutchak is part of a unique kind of cancer support group: the Team Survivor San Diego Sea Dragons boat racing team, which is made up…
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At Age 24 Cancer Changed Who I Was

At Age 24 Cancer Changed Who I Was

After a slew of seizures, misdiagnoses, and unanswered questions, Mouhamad Beydoun found out that, at the ripe age of 24, he had cancer…
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Lung Cancer Survivor: I Won’t Let Cancer Define Me

Lung Cancer Survivor: I Won’t Let Cancer Define Me

Read Melissa Crouse’s resilient story of survival, as she deals with the surprising diagnosis of lung cancer as a nonsmoker.
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Surviving, and Thriving, in the Face of Prostate Cancer

Surviving, and Thriving, in the Face of Prostate Cancer

Faced with a late-in-life diagnosis of prostate cancer, Bill Sneddon describes his positive experience with Proton therapy, the emerging…
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You Never Think It’s Going to Happen to You

You Never Think It’s Going to Happen to You

“As the CEO of a biotechnology company involved in cancer drugs development, I was familiar with the diagnosis and treatment of patients…
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