Jessie Creel’s cough started in May last year. At the time, a primary care physician diagnosed the mother of three with pneumonia. But the antibiotics didn’t work and her cough persisted. During a ...

Those harrowing words came over the phone to Karen Burns White last year while she was en route with friends to a jazz festival in Maryland. She had taken a blood test intended to detect multiple ...

The battle between medicine and cancer is ongoing. However, an almost bigger battle lies between people and recognizing possible symptoms. Tricia Scannell Laursen has been with DetecTogether for 16 ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have read about using the immune system's response as a mechanism to battle cancer (such as brain and pancreatic) and to reduce the devastating impact that cancer and its treatment ...

Misheel Gantulkhuur is a 13-year-old cancer survivor who was treated at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. During her treatments, she made balloon animals for fellow patients. Now, she's turning ...

Kadlec Regional Medical Center in Richland has begun offering an imaging procedure that may detect cancers when they are smaller and difficult to spot in some patients with routine mammography. Early ...

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