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Living life to the fullest
October 25, 2022
Living life to the fullest
Odessa Duncombe lived her life following the rules. She made a plan and did everything systematically. Now, she just lives. She does not live carelessly, but rather enjoys her life. It's like a light at the end of the tunnel for Duncombe, 44, a breast cancer survivor.
Best decision ever
August 27, 2019
Best decision ever
Zitalia Fox, 26, was diagnosed with stage three aggressive breast cancer at age 22, and underwent a bilateral mastectomy...
Taking a mental health break
July 05, 2022
Taking a mental health break
For Erica Morris, cancer is more mental than anything, which is why this cancer fighter is looking forward to a welcome reprieve between undergoing a double mastectomy, taking 16 rounds of chemotherapy treatments and, before the start of 25 rounds of radiation in August over five weeks, for a European getaway, which she said she ...
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October 26, 2021
Cleveland Clinic Launches First-of-its Kind Preventive Breast Cancer Vaccine Study
Cleveland Clinic researchers have opened a novel study for a vaccine aimed at eventually preventing triple-negative breast cancer, the most aggressive and lethal form of the disease.
This phase I trial is designed to determine the maximum tolerated dose of the vaccine in patients with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer and to characterize and optimize the body’s immune response. The U...
October 25, 2021
NINE CHALLENGING MONTHS BIRTHS SINGLE MOM’S CANCER SURVIVAL TESTIMONY
In a span of nine challenging months last year, Anya Adderley overcame pneumonia, COVID-19, cancer related port placement and bilateral mastectomies surgeries, two emergency room visits, hospitalization, and sixteen rounds of chemotherapy.
“Every day I wake up, I am grateful and thankful,” says breast cancer survivor, Anya Adderley. “I look for the positive in everything that comes my wa...
39You can help my cancer battle39
October 12, 2018
39You can help my cancer battle39
SIDDINA Henfield is seeking the public's help to raise funds to help in her fight against breast cancer. In May 2018, the 35-year-old was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer.Ms Henfield, pictured, has had a lumpectomy and a double mastectomy. Sh
Cancer fighter’s will to survive
October 11, 2018
Cancer fighter’s will to survive
Yvette Williams was diagnosed with breast cancer on the 27th July 2000. One week later she had a mastectomy...She is one of many women in The Bahamas who made the radical decision to save their lives...
Strength courage in the face of adversity
May 18, 2021
Strength courage in the face of adversity
The minute the doctor uttered the word "unfortunately", Erica Morris said she knew her diagnosis was positive for breast cancer, but she said the only thoughts that came to her centered around her son (Johnathan Robert Thomas) and who would raise him; whether they would raise him the way she would; and if they would be good to him, expose him, love him, kiss him, and tell him they loved him.
February 05, 2021
Grand Bahama Nurse Faces Emotional, Medical Threat, Praises Local Doctor, Cleveland Clinic Florida “They Saved my Life’
There are moments when Daphne Roxbury does not know how she got through it. Two weeks before Hurricane Dorian ravaged Grand Bahama and Abaco, the Registered Nurse who had helped so many others through pain and suffering learned the suspicious area that turned up on an MRI was what she most feared, breast cancer.
She had survived a major surgery for pre-ovarian cancer, diabetes, asthma, a resus...
Kashala Forbes in the fight for her life
October 06, 2020
Kashala Forbes in the fight for her life
A year ago, this month, Kashala Forbes had a double mastectomy, and while she admits she misses her "little boobies", which were a part of her for most of her life, she says removing them meant doing everything she could to save her life. "I have my children to live for," says Forbes, 31, as ...The post Kashala Forbes in the fight for her life appeared first on The Nassau Guardian.
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