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Terminal Cancer

Mistaken Brain Cancer Diagnosi Pays Off For Man

AP | Posted 05.11.2013 | Weird News
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HELENA, Mont. -- A judge has ordered the Fort Harrison VA Medical Center to pay nearly $60,000 to a Winston man who was wrongly diagnosed with brain c...

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Are We Not Recalcitrant Enough?

Jonathan Agin | Posted 03.16.2013 | Impact
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Jonathan Agin

For those of us who fight for greater federal funding, it is simply not acceptable to allow childhood cancer to be so poorly treated and under-recognized.

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Love Doesn't Get Cancer

Judy Silk | Posted 02.26.2013 | Healthy Living
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Judy Silk

That phrase broke through the heavy curtain of my grief. Don't go to the funeral today. It even let a little sunshine in. He was right. Unlike a sudden death, we have more time to live together. We have each day.

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My So-Called Midlife Transition

Tamsin Eva | Posted 12.24.2012 | Parents
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Tamsin Eva

They say that if you suspect you have a drinking problem, you have one. My best guess is that the same goes for midlife transitions.

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Donna's Cancer Story: Terminal

Sheila Quirke | Posted 11.27.2012 | Parents
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Sheila Quirke

I put on blue rubber gloves to protect my skin from the poison I stirred into her pudding and ice cream. God help me. It is heart-wrenching to spoon-feed your daughter poison that you know, at its optimum, will provide a few more weeks to her cruelly young life. But that is precisely what we did.

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Belly Dancer Given 3 Months To Live Refuses To Give Up Dreams

fairlawn.patch.com | Posted 05.01.2012 | Impact
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Rather than give up after learning last August that her adrenal cancer had returned and that she likely had only a few months to live, Sigi Nissimov u...

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WATCH: Cancer Patient Fights Spirit Airlines Over Refund Policy

Posted 05.01.2012 | Travel
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UPDATE, 5/1: Fox News interviewed Jerry Meekins about the incident on Tuesday (check it out above). Meekins called the situation "unconscionable". ...

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The Big C Is a Comedy/Drama About Fighting Cancer

Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 06.03.2012 | Entertainment
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Jackie K. Cooper

The Big C makes us laugh, and it also makes us think. It raises questions about mortality, morality and religion.

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Confronting a Terminal Diagnosis as a Family

Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D. | Posted 03.19.2012 | Healthy Living
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Joseph Nowinski, Ph.D.

The challenges that families must face when confronted with a terminal diagnosis of a loved one are complex. They include evolving new structures and dynamics as the person they love slowly slips away.

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Mother Has Baby Delivered Early To Dying Sister

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.09.2012 | Parents
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When faced with the possibility of her 10-year-old daughter, Katy, losing her battle with her inoperable brain tumor before meeting her unborn sister,...

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Veteran Frank Borrell's Final Wish Comes True Thanks To Dream Foundation

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
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Veteran Frank Borrell was lucky enough to re-visit the USS Missouri, the ship he once worked on as a young sailor during WWII. At 94 years old, Borrel...

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My Own 'Magical Thinking'

Barbara Newman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
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Barbara Newman

What do people do in their most caught-off-guard moment, when "what if" becomes reality? In 2006, when my husband was diagnosed with cancer, I found myself able to answer this question.

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