Cancer

10/23/20 095253 -- San Antonio, TX --- © Copyright 2020 Mark C. Greenberg for University Health System Rufo Soto, RN, a nurse on 9 ACU at University Hospital was first diagnosed with colon cancer in 2018. Soto has been through several rounds of treatment since his diagnosis and is eager to make others aware of the need for early detection and screening for the disease.

A nurse tells his story to urge early diagnoses of colon cancer

Post author:Shelley Kofler
Post published:October 23, 2020
Post category:Cancer
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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…

Mammograms catch breast cancer early and save lives

Post author:Shelley Kofler
Post published:October 16, 2020
Post category:Cancer / Women's Health
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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…

Teal ribbon awareness on woman's hand for Ovarian Cancer, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) disease, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Tourette's Syndrome, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

Yvonne Serrano: a story of survival

Post author:Ashley Festa
Post published:September 15, 2020
Post category:Cancer / Women's Health
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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…

Cervical cancer: causes, early signs and prevention

Post author:Elizabeth Allen
Post published:January 29, 2020
Post category:Cancer / Women's Health
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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…

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Finding hepatitis C

Post author:Don Finley
Post published:December 2, 2019
Post category:Cancer / Infectious Diseases / News / Research / Surgery / Transplants

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…

How to choose the best treatment for breast cancer

Post author:Jackie Boyle
Post published:October 23, 2019
Post category:Cancer / Surgery / Women's Health
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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.…

Recognize symptoms of breast cancer

Post author:Kimberly Nelson
Post published:October 2, 2019
Post category:Cancer
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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…

Does my child have cancer?

Post author:Dr. Chatchawin Assanasen
Post published:September 4, 2019
Post category:Cancer / Children's Health
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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…

Protect your skin and prevent skin cancer

Post author:Jackie Boyle
Post published:August 28, 2019
Post category:Cancer
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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…

You can stop colon cancer before it develops

Post author:Shelley Kofler
Post published:May 15, 2019
Post category:Cancer / Wellness

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…

A nurse tells his story to urge early diagnoses of colon cancer

Mammograms catch breast cancer early and save lives

Yvonne Serrano: a story of survival

Cervical cancer: causes, early signs and prevention

Finding hepatitis C

How to choose the best treatment for breast cancer

Recognize symptoms of breast cancer

Does my child have cancer?

Protect your skin and prevent skin cancer

You can stop colon cancer before it develops

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