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November 06, 2023
Tackling Breast Cancer Head-on, Cleveland Clinic Doctor Answers Tough Questions on Breast Cancer and Treatment Options Available Today

Breast cancer is no stranger to women. Whether you’ve lost someone to it, or supported a loved on their healing journey, women worldwide are too familiar with the disease.

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October 05, 2023
Grace Community Church responds to UB on Pride Week

Dear Editor, We were deeply saddened and disappointed by the statements offered by the Office of University Relations concerning the Bahamas Christian Council's appeal "to cancel the hosting of this event by this special interest group and return the university back to the basic tenets of standard education and the decency of higher learning". The university's ...
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October 03, 2023
Diagnosed, battled, survived!

Dale Ferguson-Joseph is celebrating seven years cancer free as Breast Cancer Awareness Month is observed globally. Ferguson-Joseph's battle to best breast cancer began on what she said was a "regular Monday" on September 19, 2016 - which would also become the day her life changed, and words like battle, warrior, and survivor would forever become ...
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August 22, 2023
Fierce, fabulous, breastless beauty

A breast cancer diagnosis was one of the most devastating news Gillian Gia Curry-Williams has ever received, but having faced cancer diagnoses in her family before, and an advocate for others who have battled the insidious disease, she was decisive and resolute in her course of treatment - a bilateral mastectomy and reconstruction - because ...
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May 23, 2023
In the fight of her life

Jamie Symonette is in the fight of her life. Diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer on February 9, Symonette, 35, is scheduled to undergo a bilateral mastectomy on June 15.

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September 17, 2020
Abaconian Trio Face Triple Threat As A Team

In the last year, three Abaco natives have faced property destruction inflicted by Hurricane Dorian, a cancer diagnosis, and now, the heightened safety risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic...

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April 18, 2023
Cleveland Clinic: First Patient to Receive Breast Cancer Vaccine Shares Health Journey

During a typical day at work, Jennifer Davis received an unexpected call that changed her life. A nurse on the other end of the line delivered the news Jennifer had triple-negative breast cancer.

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February 09, 2023
Cleveland Clinic Announces Next Step in Preventive Breast Cancer Vaccine Study

Cleveland Clinic researchers have launched the next step in their novel study of a vaccine aimed at preventing triple-negative breast cancer, the most aggressive and lethal form of the disease.

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November 08, 2022
Greater choices in breast reconstruction

Advances in reconstruction options are serving to make women more likely to opt for preventative mastectomies, according to surgeons Dr. Wesley Francis, vice president of surgical services and practicing physician at Doctors Hospital, and Dr. Martin Newman, chair of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Cleveland Clinic Florida. Due to advances, they say women who undergo ...
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November 04, 2022
Top surgeons from Bahamas and Florida agree – breast reconstruction has come a long way in a few short years giving women today far greater choices

Women who undergo a mastectomy today have far greater options for breast reconstruction than their counterparts did just a decade ago, thanks to dramatic advances.

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