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Cancer Care
Read about the innovative approaches taken by Duke doctors to treat cancer -- and the people whose lives have been affected.
Patient-Centered Care for Metastatic Lung Cancer Yields Impressive Results
Roger Parker, 55, was diagnosed with stage IV small cell lung cancer in February 2024. Following treatment at Duke Cancer Center, including a medication that w ...
Is Throat Cancer Curable?
If you’ve been diagnosed with throat cancer, also known as pharyngeal cancer, you probably have a lot of questions. Like many other types of cancer, whether th ...
Tracheoesophageal Puncture (TEP) Surgery and Tracheoesophageal Voice Prosthesis Help People Speak After Total Laryngectomy
People with throat cancer or voice box cancers who lose their ability to speak following the removal of their larynx (voice box) can learn to produce speech th ...
Beyond Grateful After Beating Triple-Negative Breast Cancer During Pregnancy
Arlene Brown knew she was at high risk for developing breast cancer and was vigilant about getting screened regularly. Still, she wasn’t prepared to find a lum ...
Beating Metastatic Colon Cancer After Treatment at Duke
Chris Biggar was only 34 years old when he was diagnosed with a rare kind of metastatic colon cancer two years ago. After several surgeries and immunotherapy a ...
Support Empowers Young Adult After Cancer
When Hope Reynolds was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer at the age of 21, she felt like her body had betrayed her. She had no family history of cancer. No ...
Self-Image Services Restore Confidence
One of the toughest moments during Debra Calhoun’s treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma came when her hair started falling out. “Even though they tell you to e ...
Innovative Treatment at Duke Offers Hope to Some People with Lung Cancer
A promising treatment called pulsed electric field (PEF) ablation is offering hope to people with lung cancer or cancers metastasized to the lungs who haven’t ...
Mom with Endometrial Cancer Thankful for Fast Treatment at Duke
Raquel Ferreyra had just separated from her husband and was adjusting to life as a single mother of three teenagers when she was diagnosed with endometrial can ...
Medical Family Therapy Helps Family Cope with Dad’s Cancer
When Joe McFadden received cancer treatment at Duke, his eight-year-old son, Emerson, worried that his dad would be lonely. Duke medical family therapist Ellie ...
Support Group Helps Men Cope with Prostate Cancer
Eight years ago, Art Krueger had to navigate the complexities of prostate cancer alone after he was diagnosed just five days before his wife passed away from b ...
Back on the Tennis Court Weeks After Surgery for Esophageal Cancer
When avid tennis player Joseph Mesiano, 73, was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, he got an appointment at Duke Cancer Center Raleigh right away. Three years a ...