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LINCOLN – In a reception featuring nearly 100 volunteers from all corners of the Nebraska, the American Cancer Society recognized its volunteer leadership in the first-annual ACS Volunteer Recognition Celebration held last month.
REGION Diana Cahill has been named regional vice president for the American Cancer Society's Southern Tier region. She oversees organization's educational, patient and family service, and fundraising efforts in 10 counties.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force made a landmark recommendation this week — mammographies for women under age 50 are not needed and should be stopped. This recommendation flies directly in the face of American Cancer Society recommendations.
VAIL VALLEY, Colorado - Studies have already revealed that diet and exercise can boost a person's chances of beating cancer. For instance, breast cancer patients who eat a low-fat diet can reduce the risk of their cancer recurring by up to 42 percent, according to one study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. "We already know that exercise and diet can improve cancer survivorship ...
(ARA) - Breast cancer is a prolific disease with an estimated 192,370 new cases diagnosed this year in women and 1,910 new cases diagnosed in men, according to the National Cancer Institute.
Several doctors groups and advocacy groups set guidelines for cancer screening, and they update that advice periodically as new information emerges. Sometimes they agree, sometimes they don't. Last year, a number of groups got together and issued consensus guidelines for colon cancer.
“There is no way this can be good,’’ the Bedminster resident recalled. “I’m probably not going to make it.” Today, the 46-year-old has been cancer-free for five years, considered the “magic” number for survivors, and is a strong, active cancer awareness advocate.
Talk about hot pink. A strong undercurrent of anger ran beneath the sea of symbolic pink gear gracing thousands of people yesterday, on Day One of San Diego’s annual three-day walk to raise money and hope for breast cancer research.
WAPPINGERS FALLS — The fifth- and sixth-grade students at Randolph School, Route 9D, Wappingers Falls will hold their first Celebration of Life, a fundraiser to benefit the American Cancer Society, from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday.
Danielle Swopes was 41 years old when her first mammogram turned up the result most women fear: Positive for breast cancer. Because the lump that turned out to be a cancerous tumor was discovered early, the Portales city library employee has...
Sixteen basketball teams played in the first ever Charlie Lovely Classic at Dora High School . The tournament honors a young athlete who started a childhood cancer foundation. Charlie Lovely was only sixteen when he died of leukemia this year, but he touched a lot of hearts in that time and left a legacy of helping others. Dora High School basketball coach Heath Burns remembers Charlie ...
FOREST CITY — Steve Lovik ticked off the reasons he’s passionate about his new job as a community relations director for the American Cancer Society.
The new mammogram recommendations out earlier this week caused quite an uproar. Now comes another change in screening tests for women -- this one for cervical cancer.
Routine cancer testing saves lives, but it also leads to biopsies, surgeries, radiation, even deaths that otherwise would not have occurred. But experts' reevaluations are met with public angst. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
Nitasha Boyer is only 23 years old and currently undergoing treatment for Stage Four Hodgkin's Lymphoma. Family and friends are coming together Saturday night to support one of their loved ones fighting a battle against cancer.
There is a curious new treatment on the rise to help patients coping with cancer: wearing makeup.
VAIL VALLEY, Colorado - Cancer survivorship is defined as anyone who has had a cancer diagnosis from the day of diagnosis until the end of life. However, cancer survivorship is a profound journey through diagnosis, treatment, coping with side effects, family dynamics, medical expenses and fear of recurrence. The Shaw Cancer Center is trying to address some of these issues with our Fit for ...
A leading medical group added new fuel to a budding health care controversy on Friday by recommending that women delay their first cervical-cancer screening until age 21 instead of starting the test three years after becoming sexually active. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) also advised that women under 30 undergo the screening, also known as Pap smears, every ...
A local family, that has been touched by cancer several times, is trying to help others in the community fight their battles with cancer. Hundreds have been gathering at the Saint Rose Parish Community Center for Kat's Memorial Cancer Benefit.
When Debbie, my wife, and I met with my doctor, who will also be my surgeon, she patiently and methodically explained the courses of treatment that might be followed to rid me of the cancer I have. I knew, before we even started, that surgery would be the winner. Following that appointment, Deb and I accumulated a small list of unanswered questions that related to the operation, and, last week ...
ROANOKE RAPIDS — New guidelines regarding mammography and self-examinations for breast cancer detection have stirred up controversy nationwide. While a government panel believes detection efforts may be delayed from current recommendations, local cancer survivors and educational specialists believe there was nothing wrong with the old ways of doing things and call the new approach “appalling.”
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