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Living With Cancer: The Lure of Alternative Remedies
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Tag Archives: Cancer
Well: A Grim Breast Cancer Milestone for Black Women
For the first time the incidence of breast cancer among black women is equal to that of white women, the American Cancer Society reports.
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Living With Cancer: My Doctor, My Friend
My oncologist has played many roles in my life during my treatment, and now I must deal with the prospect that she might leave me, writes Susan Gubar in Living with Cancer.
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Well: In a First, Aspirin Is Recommended to Fight a Form of Cancer
An expert panel backed the drug to help prevent heart attacks and colorectal cancer. Some critics say there are better and safer preventives.
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Living With Cancer: Collateral Damage
In a quandary that stalks oncology, procedures that prolong lives also impair them. Yet cancer patients who must forfeit quality of life to gain quantity of life rarely receive adequate warning before treatment or guidance afterward.
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Well: When Cancer Triggers (or Hides) an Eating Disorder
Treatment can pose a daunting challenge for young women with body-image issues, and reawaken a previous problem.
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Living With Cancer: Curses and Blessings
As a cancer patient, I see-saw between irritability and elation, depression and euphoria, like someone with bipolar disorder.
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Living With Cancer: Keep On Cooking
The food gurus seem oddly irrelevant to those in treatment for cancer.
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Living With Cancer: Patients on Our Own
Great medical care doesn’t matter if doctors and hospitals fail to adequately advise and care for patients once they leave the hospital, writes Susan Gubar in Living with Cancer.
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The Weekly Health Quiz: Coffee, Work Breaks and a Vitamin for Skin Cancer
Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.
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