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2025
September
23,
2025
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15:30 PM
America/Chicago
No one is made for cancer, but Perry Oviedo certainly has the spunk it takes to beat it. At just 3 years old, she’s already spent nearly two years fighting a type of blood cancer called acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and she’s done it with a …
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2024
September
26,
2024
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11:04 AM
America/Chicago
As a 12-year-old with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Chelsee Greer, D.O., learned some of the hard lessons of cancer that now shape how she treats the disease in children.Dr. Greer, who leads the Neuroblastoma Program at the Cook Children’s Hematology and …
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2023
September
20,
2023
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16:34 PM
America/Chicago
By Charlotte SettleIf you talk to Caitlin Schwartz for even a few minutes, you will learn she is wise beyond her years. In the last two years of her life, she has endured more than most can even imagine. Still, she wears an infectious smile and …
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September
01,
2023
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10:39 AM
America/Chicago
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. We salute Rebekah Tate and celebrate the evolving research that makes today’s medical options more promising than ever for pediatric oncology patients. #EraseKidCancer
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February
03,
2023
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11:43 AM
America/Chicago
World Cancer Day on Feb. 4 is an important day to raise awareness about prevention, detection, and treatment. Started by the Union for International Cancer Control in 2008, World Cancer Day activities seek to significantly reduce illness and death …
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2016
October
21,
2016
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10:17 AM
America/Chicago
"Dr. Peak we need to do a diagnostic ultrasound of your breast..."
Those words haunt me. I do not remember what was said next, mainly because a wave of fear and dread engulfed my body. The day I was diagnosed with breast cancer my life …
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