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Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Prostate Cancer? Here’s how to beat the odds

If you’ve got a prostate, the statistics can sound pretty scary. It’s the second leading cause of cancer death in men, right behind lung cancer. African-American men have about a…

Monday, December 11, 2017

Cancer Schmancer: Q&A with Fran Drescher

After surviving cancer 17 years ago, actress Fran Drescher found her “life’s mission.” She set up the Cancer Schmancer Movement to promote proactive health care and toxin-free living. “Turning pain…

Thursday, March 10, 2022

Staten Island Advance: “A 68-year-old ice hockey goalie? This S.I. ‘super senior’ and cancer survivor was named an AARP sponsored athlete”

…Gammarano, who cited fellow cancer survivor and NHL Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux. ‘Take a note from Mario Lemieux…if he can fight cancer and set all sorts of records, I…

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Grandma Betty: Fighting Cancer with Instagram

…had their first baby, Zach, retired so that she could help raise him while his parents held down jobs. After losing a husband and daughter to cancer, Simpson, aka Grandma…

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Catching Up With Ify Nwabukwu

…grant AWCAA received from Bowie State University is a COVID-related grant allowing us to further support breast cancer survivors who are experiencing COVID. COVID affects breast cancer patients even harder….

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Ify Nwabukwu: From Pain to Purpose

…in life is someone completing their treatment and saying “I’m cancer-free”. Cancer does not discriminate. Cancer does not discriminate. It affects us all in the same ways that inequalities and…

Monday, June 19, 2023

Ask Joan: How To Reveal My Mastectomy?

A reader asks: I am a divorced woman, 70, and I’d like to date and get sexual again. I had a total mastectomy after a second recurrence of breast cancer….

Monday, July 31, 2017

How to Get Intimate with Someone New When You Have Herpes

…Your date who was diagnosed with prostate cancer was wrong to blame this on you. Some studies indicate that there might be a link between herpes infection and prostate cancer,…

Monday, February 18, 2019

Ask Joan: Sex and ED

…more about prostate cancer and erections: “Prostate Cancer: Dealing with Erectile Dysfunction: For You and Your Partner,” UCLA Health. “How Cancer Treatment Can Affect Erections,” American Cancer Society. For more…

Thursday, December 15, 2022

Chien-Chi Huang, Health Activist

…become community health workers and provide gender specific support! Can you talk a little bit about your experience as a breast cancer survivor and why breast cancer awareness should be…

Monday, March 16, 2020

Joan Janek, 67: Mastering Fear

…breast cancer, but in 2010, I was diagnosed with lung cancer in my right upper lobe, and I had a lobectomy. Again, my life experiences taught me to see what…

Monday, December 17, 2012

How Laurie Todd Fought Her Insurance Company and Survived

…doctors’ death sentence, she scoured the Internet for information about appendix cancer treatment. There she found hope in the leading gastrointestinal cancers expert Paul Sugarbaker, MD, a surgeon at the…

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

El sol de verano y la piel de las personas mayores

…70 años, según la Skin Cancer Foundation, 1 de cada 5 personas desarrollará cáncer de piel. Pero cómo el melanoma, mucho más mortal que los cánceres de piel de células…

Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Summer Sun and Senior Skin

…The Sun and Skin Cancer Skin cancer: By age 70, the Skin Cancer Foundation says, 1 in 5 people will develop skin cancer. But even melanoma, much more deadly than…

Friday, February 21, 2020

Diversity in Medical Research

…as treatments for cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other ailments. “It’s really important to draw attention to the problems,” says Karen Winkfield, MD, PhD, director of the Office of Cancer