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Exercise During Cancer Treatment: What You Should Know

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November 2, 2012

What Exactly is a “Head and Neck” Cancer?

When someone says, “I have head and neck cancer,” he or she is most often referring to a cancer of the lining inside the head and neck area. This could be inside the nose, back of the nose (nasopharynx), mouth, tongue, tonsil (oropharynx), throat or voice b...

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October 26, 2012

Guess who I ran into at BJ’s Wholesale Club in October?

Earlier this month, BJ’s Wholesale Club in Conshohocken, PA, hosted an annual event called “BJ’s Pink Picnic.” BJ’s invited Fox Chase Cancer Center survivors, family members, and friends as well as Club Members to attend to learn about and celebrate&nb...

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Guess who I ran into at BJ’s Wholesale Club in October?

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October 16, 2012

A Different Kind of ‘Patient Care’

  A group of female patients came to Fox Chase on a summer afternoon, but it wasn’t for their usual routines of testing, procedures and doctor visits. Instead, they were treated to makeovers, photo portrait sessions and home-baked treats host...

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September 28, 2012

Tea Time at Fox Chase Gets a Twist

At 3:30pm every day during the week you can stop by to grab a cookie, a tea (hot or cold!), and chat with our researchers, clinicians, nurses and fellow staff members. I can hardly fathom the types of conversations and the ideas that get bounced around that...

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September 26, 2012

Join us LIVE on November 15 meet award-winning chef and author, Rebecca Katz

 Thursday, November 15, 2012
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Catered reception courtesy ofWhole Foods
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Join us LIVE on November 15 meet award-winning chef and author, Rebecca Katz

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September 21, 2012

Surgical Options for Patients with Colorectal Cancer

Physicians at Fox Chase Cancer Center are recognized experts in minimally invasive colorectal surgery, including laparoscopy, single-incision laparoscopy and da Vinci® robotic-assisted surgery.Unfortunately, the vast majority of colorectal surgery perf...

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