Once feared as an automatic death sentence, survival rates are up and innovative therapies offer new hope.
Most of us lived through an era when cancer was spoken about in hushed tones or referred to in euphemisms like "the big C." This was understandable in a period when a diagnosis of cancer often meant that a person was living on borrowed time.
Thankfully, the times have changed. Earlier detection, improved therapies and a better understanding of what cancer is mean that we can now talk about cancer with a good deal of optimism.
Most of us think of cancer as a single disease. However, there are over a hundred variations in this family of diseases. And within each ...
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