‘This is me now’: A Breast Cancer Patient’s Story About Healing and Recovery When 28-year-old Aleka Schmidt learned that a mastectomy was the only viable treatment for her Stage III breast cancer, she commissioned a pre-surgery portrait by photographer Sandie Ecker, “to preserve how I looked before the mastectomy.” The black-and-white image captures the collision of emotions in a young wife and mother, who sits with arms folded across her breasts, at once vulnerable and courageous, afraid and hopeful, steeling herself against the coming transformation with confidence in her husband’s love. 10 Ways to Help a Loved One with CancerWhen someone you care about is diagnosed with cancer, you want to help, but may be uncertain about exactly what to do. Chemotherapy, surgery and radiation can consume enormous time and energy. Here are ways to lend a hand 3-Drug Combo Reduces Nausea After ChemoMONDAY, May 11 (HealthDay News) -- The addition of the drug casopitant mesylate (CM) to the conventional two-drug regimen of dexamethasone and ondansetron greatly reduces chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) in patients undergoing highly emetogenic chemotherapy (HEC), a new study concludes. 9/11 Responders May Be At Raised Myeloma RiskMONDAY, Aug. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Preliminary findings suggest that responders to the attacks on the Twin Towers on 9/11 may be at higher risk for multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood. 'Male Lumpectomy' May Help Some With Prostate CancerTUESDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) -- A new procedure for prostate cancer that destroys only the part of the gland that is cancerous results in fewer side effects than surgery or radiation therapy, a new study finds. 'Phase 0' Trials Aim to Speed Cancer Drug DevelopmentFRIDAY, April 17 (HealthDay News) -- Even after years of painstaking research and testing, only a small percentage of cancer agents make it from the laboratory to the patient. So scientists have come up with a way to weed out the duds earlier in the process and speed good medications to the marketplace.
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