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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.
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 ...
Raleigh Women Credits Her Cancer Treatment at Duke for Saving Her Life
Alexa Baltazar was 28 years old when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a quick-spreading cancer of the blood. Born and raised in Raleigh, sh ...
Raleigh Man Gives Back to Community After Specialized Surgery Eliminates Testicular Cancer
When Matt Cross found a lump on his testicle at age 35, he brushed it off as “just a cyst.” He eventually saw a doctor for an unrelated concern and was diagnos ...
Cancer-Free and Seeing Clearly After Eye Cancer Surgery at Duke Health
Less than three years ago, Daryl Johnson was diagnosed with eye cancer that threatened not just his eyesight, but potentially his life. Thanks to the expertise ...
Raleigh Woman with Multiple Myeloma in Remission After Cancer Treatment at Duke
Jacquelyn Weatherly lost both parents to cancer, so when she was diagnosed with the disease at age 59, she was not surprised. It was the type of cancer -- a ra ...
From Duke Cancer Center Patients to Cancer Care Advocates
Cliff Chieffo, his wife Pat, and their oldest daughter have more in common than family ties. They are all cancer survivors, and all three are thankful for the ...
Fertility Preservation Helps Young Breast Cancer Survivor Grow Her Family
Susan VanNess of Wake Forest was breastfeeding her son when she felt a lump in her breast. She thought it was a cyst or clogged milk duct and made an appointme ...
Man Keeps His Voice After Partial Laryngectomy Treats Laryngeal Cancer
Dale Jessup, 71, was diagnosed with voice box cancer (also known as laryngeal cancer) in late 2017. Despite radiation treatment, Jessup’s cancer returned in Ja ...
Helping Advance Phyllodes Tumor Research
Karen Kump of Elko, Nevada, knew the lump on her right breast should be checked by a doctor when she first noticed it in July 2022. “But my granddaughter was g ...
What You Should Know About Prostate Cancer
Prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer found in men, other than skin cancer. In fact, the American Cancer Society estimates that one of every eight ...