PETRINA Burnett’s breast cancer diagnosis in 2007 at age 31 may have defined her life, but the story of her experience navigating the cancer pathway in her new book, It’s Not (Just) About the Breast, covers much more than mastectomies, reconstructions and chemotherapy. “A year after I was diagnosed, I was found to carry the …

FOX 2 – Five years ago Molly Marco was on enjoying her favorite coffee at a Downtown Detroit coffee house when suddenly she didn’t feel like herself. “I felt dizzy, fell off the chair,” she said. “(EMS came) they pretty much told me I would be to taken to emergency and tested for either a seizure or a stroke …

A young rising Johnson City musician will perform this week at a fundraiser for a young boy fighting cancer. Lynnae Moon will be in concert at the Barrel House in Jonesborough Wednesday, 6-8 p.m., in an effort to raise money for Cash Hicks and his family to help cover medical and other associated costs while …

Wales’ largest building society has hit a milestone, by raising £1 million for charities in Wales since 2014. The fundraising has supported seven different charities in Wales in the past seven years, including Mind Cymru, Cancer Research Wales, School of Hard Knocks, MS Society, Llamau and since 2019, the Society’s current charity partners Teenage Cancer …

How COVID-19’s lasting legacy will reshape clinical cancer research COVID-19 has dramatically impacted the overall management of clinical trials. But the pandemic has also had an outsized impact on trials focusing on oncology, hindering the development of potential treatments for various forms of cancer in several different ways. Recruiting patients for oncology studies was extremely …

(CBS DETROIT) – In 2019, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services estimated that over 9,000 Michigan women would be diagnosed with breast cancer over the course of the year. The Pink Fund, founded by breast cancer survivor Molly MacDonald, is a local nonprofit that provides between $60,000 and $85,000 in financial assistance to breast cancer patients each month.READ …

TORONTO — A 3-year-old Japanese-Canadian boy’s family is raising money for the life-saving treatment he needs after being diagnosed with two rare forms of cancer. Hide Chamberlain, 3-years-old, was diagnosed with Adrenocortical Carcinoma, a rare disease in which cancer cells form in the outer layer of the adrenal gland, in the summer of 2020. Since …

Black women with breast cancer are approximately 40% more likely to die compared to white women with breast cancer in the U.S.[1] – and are also more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage with more aggressive disease[2] Novartis will enlist multidisciplinary experts in breast cancer and health policy to identify the most pressing …

LONDON, May 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — In the clinical world, eyes – specifically the iris – have long been a useful instrument in helping healthcare professionals examine and determine a patient’s health condition.  So in today’s environment, where prevention is clearly preferable to cure – not least in eliminating further burdens on health services – a real-time …

Cancer patients who receive hospital-at-home care are less likely to experience unplanned hospitalizations, new research suggests. Those individuals likewise account for lower health care costs. The new findings — focused on Huntsman at Home, a cancer hospital-at-home model operated by the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah — were published earlier this month …