St. Charles County residents support cancer programs
Six cancer advocates from St. Charles County joined more than 123 American Cancer Society volunteers from across the state to share their stories with state lawmakers, while asking them to support legislation on cancer issues.
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U of L reaches out to rural area in fight with cancer
After surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, 38-year-old Owensboro, Ky., resident Jennifer Slone is cancer free — and she credits her survival to a gynecological oncologist, a women’s cancer specialist who treated her through a University of Louisville program that reaches out to Western Kentucky.
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Mutation quadruples repeat breast cancer risk
WASHINGTON, April 5 (Reuters) – Younger breast cancer patients who have a mutation in the well-known BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes are four times as likely to get cancer in the other breast as most patients, researchers reported on Monday.
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