Care close to home
Network benefits ease patient’s journey
Lisa Peltier is all smiles as she breezes into the cancer center at Tahoe Forest Hospital. Everyone she passes says hello; some stop for hugs…
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- Director’s Message
- Patient focus Network benefits ease patient’s journey
- Outreach Distress screening critical to patient care
- Connections Melanoma treatment in dogs provides hope for humans
- Building on basics Glycan research yielding potential biomarkers
- First steps Can the PSA test diagnose prostate cancer without leading to unnecessary treatments?
- Benefactors Endowment will boost lung cancer drug research
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The sixth vital sign
When a patient is diagnosed with cancer, one crucial question typically leaps to mind: Am I going to survive this?
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Companions in cancer
When Krista DeZerega-Thomson and her family learned that Rohan, their beloved Labrador retriever, had melanoma their hearts fell.
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Sugar clues
Cancer arises from changes to genes. When exposed to chemicals, UV light, pathogens or other carcinogens, DNA can mutate, allowing cells to become malignant…
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To screen or not to screen
Medical choices can be confusing. For years, men have relied on the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test to warn them if they are at higher than normal risk…
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A perpetual honor
Donna Kato watched her father die of lung cancer in 2010. Her heartache was accompanied by frustration that too few drug therapies were available for lung cancer patients.