A 10-month-old girl is doing more than just playing -- she's having to fight for her life after being diagnosed with liver cancer. Then things got complicated.
Baby JoJo is part of a set of rare identical triplets, but she's fighting liver cancer at just 10 months old. Her cancer fight took a turn when she got a respiratory virus, too. Now she's on the other side and about to go home but her family is asking for a bit of help.
Henry Ford Health System in Detroit recently provided the first patient in Michigan — a 60-year-old man from the Cadillac area — with a new aerosolized cancer treatment.
“Full House” star Dave Coulier’s battle with cancer is getting tougher, according to his wife. It was announced in October that Coulier was diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma. “He has some really tough days, and as chemo has been accumulating it gets a little tougher and more difficult,” she told WXYZ ABC 7 in Detroit this week.
Traditional approaches to prostate cancer screening involve blood tests, MRI, and biopsies. However, in addition to being uncomfortable, some of these procedures result in overdiagnosis of low-grade cancers.
Doctors urge women to know the symptoms and get screened. "Cervical health, cervical cancer is something that really affects anyone with a cervix," Dr. Nasser Suleiman, family medicine physician at Covenant Healthcare in Saginaw said.
A test for pee-based markers of prostate cancer has previously relied on an uncomfortable first step. A new study has revealed that the now-available test remains just as accurate without it, paving the way from an easy in-home testing option.
Some oncologists suggest that, for certain early cancers not at risk of spreading, the term “cancer” should be avoided.
HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) — Two Evansville parents are in custody after police say their child admitted herself to the hospital on Saturday, but they never came to pick her up, leaving her there for several hours. Authorities say the child was admitted following an alleged mental health break down, where it is said the child […]
What was on Tom Izzo's shoes during Michigan State basketball's win over Minnesota on Tuesday night? Messages and perspective from cancer patients.
The urine test, called MyProstateScore 2.0, or MPS2, looks at 18 different genes linked to high-grade prostate cancer. The researchers had previously demonstrated that the test was effective in identifying GG2 or higher cancers, helping patients avoid unnecessary biopsies.
Students at a high school in Southeast Michigan raised $85,000 for a local hospital to support cancer care for patients.