More articles about: Cancer Care

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Depression and Cancer: Why Emotional Care Is Key During Treatment

Emotional distress and depression associated with cancer can be debilitating for patients and their families, learn what signs to look for and what treatments can help.
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What Cancer Patients Should Know About Preserving Fertility — and Hope

Steps taken before starting cancer treatment can preserve a patient’s ability to have children. A Michigan Medicine doctor explains.
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Patient Navigators: a Personal Guide to Cancer Treatment’s Complexity

Hospitals and health systems nationwide, including Michigan Medicine, now tap advocates who bring compassionate and customized help to cancer patients.
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Cancer Survivor Climbs Mount Kilimanjaro, One Step at a Time

Read about how setting a big goal — climbing Africa’s tallest mountain — helped Kelly Luck, who was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, get through day-to-day treatment.
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Survivor in Action: A Cancer Patient Lends Her Mind, Body and Voice to Help Others

Participation in clinical trials is one way a mother fights back against cancer. She also volunteers with cancer patients and is working to boost research funds to study her own disease.
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'Living Proof' that Federal Cancer Research, Funding Matter

A breakthrough treatment supported by a multitude of federal agencies helped one woman beat cancer, leading her to speak out about the importance of continuing such work.
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How Cancer Research Gave Hope to a Patient Previously Out of Options

The story of one man with stomach cancer — and thousands more patients like him — demonstrates the lifesaving power of research and discovery.
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How Technology Is Making Prostate Cancer Biopsies More Precise

Learn more about how Michigan Medicine specialists are combining new techniques to improve prostate cancer diagnosis.
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Beating Stage 4 Colon Cancer with Trust, Treatment and Community

Stage 4 colon cancer survivor Phil Scamihorn shares his inspiring journey to becoming cancer-free after a colon cancer diagnosis in 2012.
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Two Ways to Have a More Comfortable Colonoscopy

Learn how Michigan Medicine doctors are taking steps to make crucial colonoscopy screening a little easier.
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Lynch Syndrome and Colon Cancer Risk: One Family’s Story

A family history of cancer had been a longtime fact of life for one Michigan Medicine nurse. After digging deeper — and being diagnosed herself — she learned why.
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5 Warning Signs of Colorectal Cancer

Learn five symptoms that are early warning signs of colorectal cancer and find out how your family history impacts your colon cancer risk.
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Should Young People Get a Colon Cancer Screening? It Depends on Their Risk

A Michigan Medicine expert explains implications of increasing colon cancer diagnosis among young people and how this impacts the age at which you should begin getting screened for colon cancer.
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Support Without a Cancer Diagnosis: Helping People at Risk Find Comfort

Learn more about how people with a genetic predisposition to cancer can benefit from support groups as much as cancer patients, but options for the former group are limited.
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Prostate Cancer and Hereditary Risk: A Doctor Explains the Connection

Some genetic mutations linked to breast cancer also can affect men, but in a different way. A Michigan Medicine urologist explains the connection.