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.
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!
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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 ...
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 ...
Readers: This is part 2 of a report on the war on cancer. Part 1 is here. Forty years into this war, technological advances have given scientists the tools they needed to explore deep inside our cells. They know that cancer begins with a single mishap within the nucleus, where ...
Editor's note: This is the first part of a series looking at the "war on cancer." In 1971, President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act into law and the war on cancer was on. Although neither he nor the legislation used the word war, it quickly became the metaphor ...
Every one of us is exposed to radiation simply by virtue of living. The Environmental Protection Agency says that, like a steady drizzle of rain, we're constantly showered by radiation from space, and the closer we get to space, the more we're exposed. That's why exposure increases when we fly ...
We cancer patients are routinely poked, prodded, knifed, examined, drugged — and photographed with "cameras" that take "pictures" ever so candidly of parts that some of us never knew we had, much less wanted to see. Indeed, medical imaging devices have come a long way since the first X-ray was ...
Still in the operating room, I asked the surgeon to show me what he had removed. Before my sleepy eyes, he placed a vial containing what looked like a bloody pea, a small piece of me that was about to seal my fate.
Judy Estes, nurse practitioner, at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer CenterYou have cancer. Those are three of the most frightening words anyone can hear. I know. I heard them — exactly nine years ago today. Well, I heard them, but I didn't believe them. After catching my breath, I ...
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