SILVER SPRING – Audience members told horror stories of rationing their diabetic medicine or not being able to afford their child’s inhaler at a March 16 community forum on “Busting High Drug Prices” …
Trone Diagnosed with Cancer
Democratic candidate for Maryland’s sixth district expects full recovery David Trone, Democratic candidate for Maryland’s sixth congressional district and co-owner of Total Wine and More, said i…
NIH reports cancer rates dropping
Cancer rates across the United States are declining, according to a new report from the National Institutes of Health.
Known as the Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, the report exam…
County has lowest rates of most common cancers
Dr. Chunfu Liu, Dr. Brandi Page, and Dr. Clifford Mitchell participated in a panel on cancer rates in Montgomery County. PHOTO BY SUZANNE POLLAK Incidences of the five most common forms of cancer are…
Rockville lights the night in its fight against cancer
Attendees hold up lanterns during Rockville’s Light The Night fundraising walk to support those suffering from blood cancer. PHOTO BY MARK POETKER More than 2,000 people who have been touched …
NIH study reveals social interaction helps patients during chemotherapy
A study conducted by researchers at the National Institutes of Health suggests positive social interaction may help chemotherapy patients survive longer.
“People model behavior based on what’s around …
Silver Spring man remembered for activism
Jonathan Shurberg
COURTESY OF KEVIN GILLOGLY
Jonathan Shurberg, a Silver Spring attorney and Democratic activist, died Thursday morning after suffering from cancer and pneumonia. He was 54 years ol…
Cancer support group honors two volunteers and co-founder
(Left to right) Hope Connections’ honorees, co-founder-CEO/President Paula Rothenberg, May Benatar (Bethesda) and Afie Lattimer (Potomac), along with gala co-chairs Jim Baker and Liza Marshall, and fr…
NIH studies cancer in African Americans
BETHESDA – The National Institutes of Health has launched a study to examine incidence rates among African-American cancer survivors.
“What we saw was that African-Americans were experiencing higher …
Trying to make my dad proud
When my father was my age he had about three months to live. The lung cancer which cost him his life ravaged his body for close to two years.The doctors in their infinite wisdom had given him but thre…