PARP Inhibitor Treatment Is Helping My Pancreatic Cancer
During Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, we share Doug Murray’s important pancreatic cancer story.
During Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month, we share Doug Murray’s important pancreatic cancer story. Knowing he had a BRCA gene mutation provided access to a newly developed therapy and Doug was the first patient at UCHealth Cancer Center in Colorado to start a PARP inhibitor treatment for his pancreatic cancer. Read his story to hear about the results.
Patient Advocate Faces Thyroid Cancer Decades After Surviving Breast Cancer
September 5th 2023‘I feel like I've gone to continuing education classes as an advocate through reentering the health system in the cancer space,’ FORCE executive director and founder Sue Friedman, a breast cancer survivor who recently received a diagnosis of thyroid cancer, tells CURE.
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Stepping Up Again for Hereditary Cancer Prevention
February 25th 2023On Feb. 6, HB 2783 was introduced into the Arizona House. Hopefully this bill will help address some of the issues surrounding genetic testing, genetic counseling, and insurance coverage for those who might be at risk for hereditary cancer. My wife died of a cancer that was totally preventable. Nobody should die of a preventable cancer.
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