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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.
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.
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.
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.
Living life to the fullest
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.
Strength courage in the face of adversity
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.
New lease on life
New lease on life
Mothers look forward to their children's milestones -- their progression from birth to the toddler stage, then onto adulthood, and eventually the children becoming parents themselves, and the cycle taking place all over again.
A Father's Worst Nightmare
A Father's Worst Nightmare
No parent ever wants to outlive their child.? They dream of giving their children a good education, seeing them established in their career, get married and raise families of their own.? Father of six, Anthony "Skeebo" Roberts had just such thoughts, and never dreamed he would lose two of his three daughters to cancer, at very young ages, or that they would die a mere three years apart.