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Don't Get Cancer if You're Obese: Short-Changing Chemotherapy
Imagine being diagnosed with cancer, going through grueling chemotherapy treatments, and discovering that the therapy wasn't successful... due to a withholding of the proper chemotherapy dose. For 40%...
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Report Warns of Possible Link Between Fertility Drugs and Mad Cow Disease
Our local organic market sells a t-shirt that reads: there is no such thing as Mad Tofu Disease. And while I'll admit that I snickered when I first saw it, it's also obnoxious. It's smug. And yet, I...
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Every Scar Tells A Story
We didn't talk about the cancer. Five years ago, a seemingly innocent tumor had become a central figure in her life, one that continued to dwell in her consciousness long after the first surgery had...
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Start Out Your New Year By Helping With a Great Project
BlogHer Susan Niebur of Toddler Planet was speaking with her lymphedema therapist during a session to reduce the swelling in her arms post-mastectomy when she learned that many cancer survivors cannot...
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Scare Tactics: IVF and the Cancer Connection
The first time I wondered if the fertility drugs I took had any chance of causing cancer or other health concerns down the road was when I was reading Peggy Orenstein's book, Waiting for Daisy. I knew...
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You Can Give Somebody a "Good Death" -- It's Okay to Talk About It
My maternal grandparents were both immigrants, and between the two of them, they probably escaped demise at least a dozen times. My grandmother had escaped the pogroms, my grandfather narrowly missed...
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Will Graphic Images on Cigarette Health Warnings Work?
The carnival of horrors is coming to the United States at last and all smokers are invited. On Wednesday, health officials unveiled their plans to replace the text-only warnings on cigarette packs...
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