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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.
Duke Experts Help Woman with Metastatic Breast Cancer Live Longer, Better
In Fall 2020, after beating breast cancer nearly 20 years earlier, Janet Gorence Davas learned the cancer was back and it had spread. She underwent surgery and ...
Duke Palliative Care Provides Extra Support for State Trooper with Ewing Sarcoma
When Zach Martin was diagnosed with metastatic bone cancer in December 2022, a new palliative care program at Duke Health provided the extra medical and psycho ...
KidsCan! Connects Kids to Talk about Parents’ Cancer
The KidsCAN! team approached Graham Alexander and his family shortly after his wife, Elizabeth, was transferred to the Duke Cancer Center from another hospital ...
Isabella Strahan Looks to the Future After Rare Brain Tumor Treatment
In October 2023, Isabella Strahan spent her 19th birthday in the hospital recovering from brain surgery to remove a rare cancerous tumor. Nearly 10 months late ...
PT Program Improves Fitness in Young Adult Cancer Survivors
Nicole Spine’s second brush with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma left the 22-year-old so physically and mentally withered, she doubted that she would ever feel like her for ...
Pancreatic Cancer Survivor Back to Doing What He Enjoys
David Sabio was 48 when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. After aggressive treatment at Duke Health including surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, he s ...
Lung Cancer in Young and Middle-Aged Women Is On the Rise
Lately, researchers have seen an alarming increase in the number of women aged 55 and younger being diagnosed with lung cancer. According to Duke medical oncol ...
Social Media Helps Woman Find Phyllodes Tumor Experts and Support
When Nathalie Delpeche was diagnosed with a recurrent phyllodes tumor, she turned to social media for information. There, she learned about Laura H. Rosenberge ...
Cancer Survivors Give Back Through Volunteering
Watching Diane and Dean Lamont push the engagement cart around a waiting room in the Duke Cancer Center, you can sense that they share a common mission and pur ...
Tonsil Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment, and All Clear in Less Than Six Months
When a suspicious lump in her neck wouldn’t go away, 52-year-old Kim Barnard learned she had cancer. The Roxboro, NC resident’s first move was transferring her ...
Duke Program Helps Families Talk About Parent’s Cancer
Seth Cuni, a single dad, lived with tongue cancer for months without telling his two young children. “I decided this is my problem, and I can do this alone. We ...
Whipple Surgery for Pancreatic Cancer
If you have been diagnosed with early-stage pancreatic cancer, the most important decision is where to go for surgery. Up to 30% of people with pancreatic canc ...