Patient Stories

Introduction

The collection of stories here details the experiences of people who have successfully dealt with cancer in their lives. Please also visit our groundbreaking The Seven Levels of Healing® program to learn about how every dimension of cancer - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual - is important to healing.

Click on the links to the right to read the stories of people whose lives have been touched by cancer.

Latest Cancer News

  • May 9, 2008
    Stem Cell Transplant Procedures Vary Throughout the World
    Stem cell transplant practices vary substantially among physicians treating adults and children with hematologic malignancies (cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukemias and lymphomas).  These findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
  • May 9, 2008
    Genetic Variation Associated with Risk of Neuroblastoma
    Individuals with a common genetic variation (change in DNA) on the chromosome band 6p22 have a significantly increased risk of developing neuroblastoma, as well as an increased risk for disease relapse and advanced disease. These results were recently published in an early online article in the New England Journal of Medicine.
  • May 9, 2008
    Colon Cancer Outcomes Differ Between Men and Women
    Variations within the gene responsible for epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFR) may be predictive of differing outcomes between male and female patients diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer. Details of the study have recently been published in the Journal of Cancer Research.
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