Patients with esophageal tumors often experience malignant dysphagia, or difficulty in swallowing due to an obstruction, complicating their treatment and preventing them from eating food normally. The Advanced Center […]
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Mon Health Cancer Center highlights Skin Cancer Awareness Month
Mon Health Cancer Center is recognizing May as Skin Cancer Awareness Month and sharing the fast facts to detect and prevent skin cancer. As the weather begins to get warmer, […]
Kate Middleton has cancer. How awful was all our speculating?
by Carla Hall Finally, there was the explanation everyone was clamoring for but no one was expecting: Kate Middleton, the wife of Prince William, the heir to the British throne, […]
There’s no shame in a cancer diagnosis
News that Catherine, Princess of Wales, has been diagnosed with cancer set off a pointless argument. One side complained that the royal family had not been forthcoming with the truth […]
Betty Rollin’s principled death raises a question
by John M. Crisp Betty Rollin, writer and national correspondent for NBC, ABC and PBS, died on Nov. 7 at age 87. Rollin was known for two memoirs: Her account […]
Guest essay: Multi-cancer early detection tests save lives
by Delegate Joey Garcia All politics are local. It’s an old saying that still endures today. It encapsulates the concept that personal concerns are more important than lofty ideas. And […]
Student-led Relay for Life returns to campus
The WVU and Morgantown community is invited to join the movement and fight back against cancer while honoring and remembering loved ones during the American Cancer Society Relay For Life […]
Cancer institute marks Pink and Pearl Day
WVU MEDICINE The WVU Cancer Institute joined organizations across the state to celebrate West Virginia’s inaugural Pink and Pearl Day Friday. Pink and Pearl Day, the keystone date of a […]
A scary new link between air pollution and lung cancer
by Lisa Jarvis A new study has upended the way researchers think about how air pollution causes lung cancer. The work cracks open a whole new way of thinking about […]
America in winter
President John F. Kennedy committed America to landing on the moon in a speech on Sept. 12, 1962. It was spring. The calendar said otherwise, yes. But, as has been […]
