
A nurse tells his story to urge early diagnoses of colon cancer
The death of actor Chadwick Boseman at age 43 felt personal for Rufo Soto. Like Boseman, the transplant nurse at University Hospital was diagnosed with colon cancer before the age…
The death of actor Chadwick Boseman at age 43 felt personal for Rufo Soto. Like Boseman, the transplant nurse at University Hospital was diagnosed with colon cancer before the age…
Denise Bradley remembers the moment as if it was yesterday. She was changing clothes when she felt a lump in her left breast. It seemingly appeared out of nowhere. “It…
When Yvonne Serrano learned she had uterine cancer, it had already spread to her ovaries and nearby lymph nodes. She was in Stage 3C uterine and ovarian cancer, moving toward…
The early signs of cervical cancer can be subtle. When Dani Billote went in for a routine health checkup and Pap smear, she had no idea that she had stage…
All Baby Boomers should be screened for hepatitis C, according to federal recommendations. That’s because an estimated three-quarters of infections are in people born between 1945 and 1965, and most…
If you’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer, you have a lot on your mind. Decisions need to be made. What treatment is best for you isn’t always clear at first.…
One in eight women in the U.S. is diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime and more than 40,500 women die from breast cancer each year. It’s important to know…
Although it happens, rest assured that children developing cancer is very rare; only about 19 out of every 100,000 kids up to the age 19 get cancer. Most of the…
More Americans are diagnosed with skin cancer each year than all other cancers combined. One in five will develop some type of skin cancer by the age of 70. The…
If there were an exam that could help prevent abnormal growths from developing into cancer, wouldn’t you want to sign up? Sounds like a no-brainer. But when it comes to…