Category Archives: Cancer Prevention

When children are in pain or experiencing troubling symptoms, their parents want to do everything in their power to get them the help they need. That means taking them to the doctor’s office. Unfortunately, doctors don’t always catch the signs of something serious, including signs of childhood cancer. Here is a chilling example recently reported …

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Unfortunately, a bill that would have helped victims of delayed cancer diagnoses in New York State failed to make it to the floor of the state Senate before the last legislative session ended. But hopefully, this won’t be the end of “Lavern’s Law.” The bill would have allowed New York State to join the majority …

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In a recent installment of its ongoing “Living Cancer” series, NPR and WNYC public radio focused on the daunting medical expenses faced by cancer patients and their families in the U.S. “Many people told us the financial cost of cancer treatment was something they preferred not to think about — at first,” reporter Kathryn Tam …

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