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Share these short, powerful breast cancer quotes to encourage and provide hope for friends and family affected by the disease.
Carter’s successful cancer treatment “would have been considered a miracle just 15 to 20 years ago,” said Dr. Adam Friedman, chair of dermatology at George Washington University.
Image credits: tkcool73 #5. Pharmacist: when looking up any health-related info, sites ending in .gov or .edu are the most trustworthy. Some .org are great too, like mayoclinic.
Sculpture in a park with a theme of cancer survivorship. A cancer survivor is a person with cancer of any type who is still living. Whether a person becomes a survivor at the time of diagnosis or after completing treatment, whether people who are actively dying are considered survivors, and whether healthy friends and family members of the cancer patient are also considered survivors, varies ...
Women fear dying from breast cancer more than dying from heart disease, even though, as of 2006, eleven times as many women died from heart disease and stroke as from breast cancer. [104] According to cardiologist Lisa Rosenbaum, this may be because women "view heart disease as the consequence of having done something bad, whereas to get breast ...
The National Institute of Health (NIH) attributes the increase in the 5-year relative survival of prostate cancer (from 69% in the 1970s to 100% in 2006) to screening and diagnosis and due to the fact that men that participate in screening tend to be healthier and live longer than the average man and testing techniques that are able to detect ...
Here’s what we know about extending your health span—or as Susan Golden, author of Stage (Not Age), puts it, your “joy span”—which, by the way, is nothing to sneeze at since women do ...
The Livestrong Foundation is a United States nonprofit organization that provides support for people affected by cancer.The foundation, based in Austin, Texas, was established in 1997 by cancer survivor and former professional road racing cyclist Lance Armstrong, as the Lance Armstrong Foundation. [1]