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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.
Experienced Care Makes Difference in Thyroid Cancer Treatment
Fayetteville artist Stephanie Bostock didn’t know how advanced her thyroid cancer was when she was first diagnosed. But she knew she needed to find experienced ...
Breast Cancer Surgery With no Visible Scar
Leslie Hollingsworth was in her early 20s when her grandmother was first diagnosed with breast cancer. Now 50, Hollingsworth has been doing self-breast exams a ...
Breast Cancer Treatment in Raleigh Makes Big Difference
For Joy Lathan, receiving her breast cancer treatment in Raleigh, near where she lives in and works, made a big difference. It allowed her to schedule chemothe ...
60 Minutes Updates Viewers on Poliovirus Therapy for Glioblastoma
In a poignant, two-part segment May 15, 2016, CBS’s 60 Minutes returned to Duke to update viewers on the poliovirus therapy developed and tested by researchers ...
Breast Surgeon Shelley Hwang, MD, Named Among TIME's 100 Most Influential People
Shelley Hwang, MD, chief of breast surgery at the Duke Cancer Institute, has been named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people for 2016 as a pioneer in her ...
Complex Neck Surgery for Medullary Thyroid Cancer Restores Health and Hope
Pope “Mac” McCorkle thought his severe bouts of diarrhea were a symptom of irritable bowel syndrome, but soon learned it signaled medullary thyroid cancer. Aft ...
Duke Cancer Institute Joins National Endorsement of HPV Vaccination
The Duke Cancer Institute joined all 68 other top U.S. cancer centers in issuing a statement that urges increased HPV vaccinations to prevent cancer in respons ...
Diagnosing Lung Cancer May Get Easier for Some Patients
A new test may reduce the need for expensive and invasive procedures to diagnose lung cancer in some patients. Momen Wahidi, MD, an interventional pulmonologis ...
New Treatment Guidelines for Thyroid Cancer Finds Less May Be More
People with small thyroid tumors may soon be hearing their doctor recommend they undergo a partial thyroid removal rather than a total removal, based on new Am ...
A New Approach to Treating DCIS
Time magazine's cover story sheds light on doctors' new thinking about how to treat ductal carcinoma in-situ or DCIS with active surveillance, rather than more ...
Bone Marrow Transplant Recipient Meets Stranger Who Saved His Life
Randy Pence was going to die without a bone marrow transplant to treat his chronic leukemia. A match was found through the National Bone Marrow Donor Program. ...
Novel Therapy Offers Second Chance at Life for People with Melanoma
Teresa Byrd almost lost hope after being diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma. After participating in a clinical trial studying a new class of drugs that received F ...