The National Cancer Institute estimates that one in four adults diagnosed with cancer is the parent of a child under the age of 18. For every one of them, the challenges of parenting significantly increases, and parents search for ways to help their children cope.
Spring has sprung, signaling the start of home improvement season. Whether we're sprucing up, repairing or adding on, it's a great time to think about the profound impact of our shopping habits.
Because the emotional aspects of cancer are just as hard, and often harder, than the physical aspects, even the most optimistic among us are susceptible to depression. Too often, people are reluctant to seek help and a treatable condition goes untreated.
In the video below, which recently aired on the PBS show A Wider World, University of Michigan oncologist Dr. Harry Erba, discusses the importance of second opinions after a cancer diagnosis and what to do if opinions differ.
University of Michigan pathologist Dr. Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson and oncologist Dr. Harry Erba recently starred in reports that aired on the PBS show A Wider World and are available at the end of this article.
You have cancer. Exactly 10 years ago today, I heard those frightening words. I was driving north on US 23 and might as well have been slammed by the semi that was traveling next to me.
On Dec. 23, 1971, President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act and the war on cancer was on. Specifically, the act launched the nation on a concerted course to conquer cancer through investment in cancer research and biomedical science.
The last of seven houses on South Fifth Avenue in Ann Arbor was demolished on Friday afternoon to make way for City Place student apartments. Several passersby stopped to watch as the house was reduced to rubble, all in agreement that it was a sad day.
It's a first! Next week, reports about a variety of cancer topics come to TV every week as a regular part of the weekly, half hour PBS show A Wider World!
It's Pinktober. Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Oh, I'm aware. I watched breast cancer steal the life of one of my best friends. Another is battling a frightening recurrence after several years in remission. But I'm no more or less worried about her than I am about the 20-year-old niece of ...
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Several years ago — before my life collided with science — my husband Alex and I were at a party where, at dinner, we happened to sit across from a scientist. On and on she chatted about her research in liver cancer.
The blood cancers — leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma — rarely get much attention, even though, collectively, they account for 9.5 percent of all cancer deaths and 9 percent of new diagnoses in the U.S. — and even though they have historically played a significant role in unlocking the mysteries of cancer ...
As the nation commemorated the 10th anniversary of the worst attack on American soil in our nation's history, I couldn't help but think back to the first anniversary of that horrific attack. It was then — nine years ago — that I was in a small hospital room fighting for my own life.
What if there were an FDA-approved treatment for a particular type of cancer that has proven more effective than any other, but a different government agency kept patients from getting it? This is not some wild conspiracy theory, but the true tale of a treatment that's caught in a bureaucratic ...
These days, most of us head straight to the Internet for information, but the web can be just as harmful as it is helpful because anybody can publish anything. Out of context information can be misleading, sources can be biased, and bad information — or even too much of it ...
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