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Nov 23, 2017
Should women older than 18 get the HPV vaccine?
The HPV vaccine prevents cervical cancer
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Nov 11, 2017
How this mom turned her late husband’s birthday into her favorite day of the year
Kindness is a movement
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Oct 27, 2017
She bought 26 Lady Gaga tickets to celebrate beating cancer. She never made it to the concert.
PERSPECTIVE | Cancer is also relentless. And merciless.
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Oct 27, 2017
‘Damaged for the rest of my life’: Woman says surgeons mistakenly removed her breasts and uterus
A nurse practitioner misread her test results
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Oct 22, 2017
The struggle of being a mom with cancer, from the author of ‘Cancer Hates Kisses’
PERSPECTIVE | Demystifying a mother’s illness for children
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Oct 16, 2017
Does breast-feeding really decrease my cancer risk?
Yes, but it’s complicated
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Oct 8, 2017
These moms have the BRCA gene mutation
Here’s how it affects their parenting
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Sep 28, 2017
Lianne Zhang discovered she had breast cancer the day after Election Day
She says she woke up to her…
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Sep 27, 2017
She was a cancer nurse until she became a cancer patient
‘Cancer doesn’t play favorites. It can get anyone.’
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Sep 27, 2017
My mom had ovarian cancer. I searched for ways to be close to her even though I lived far.
PERSPECTIVE | I felt powerless and wanted to give her more
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