This is the second entry in Melissa’s blog (read first part here): My initial meeting with Dr. Mark Morgan and his nurse left me full of hope. He confidently told me that he would consider preserving fertility if things looked okay. I had to trust...

During the summer of 2007, I worked as a bartender at the beach. I wasn’t feeling well and came home every week for one appointment or another. I visited the emergency room several times due to back discomfort, nausea or pain down the back of my leg. I...

In May 2012, the United States Preventive Services Task Force finalized a controversial draft statement recommending against routine prostate specific antigen (PSA)-based screening for prostate cancer. Praised by some, and harshly criticized by others,...

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...

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...

  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...