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Catching Cancer Recurrence with Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) Tests: 5 Things to Know
There’s no way to know for sure whether a successfully treated cancer will come back. But circulating tumor DNA, or ctDNA, testing can help. If you or a loved one has recently completed treatment, here are five important points you should know about this ne...
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Catching Cancer Recurrence with Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) Tests: 5 Things to Know
Having Healthy Gut Bacteria Is Important for Overall Health and Cancer Prevention
One of the trendy health topics right now is gut health. Fashionable or not, it’s an exciting area of research. Scientists are making new discoveries about the role of the gut microbiome and how it’s related to disease—including cancer. What is a microbi...
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Having Healthy Gut Bacteria Is Important for Overall Health and Cancer Prevention
What Precautions Do COVID-19 Vaccinated Cancer Patients Need to Take?
The development of safe and highly effective COVID-19 vaccines has provided a path to ending this pandemic. Over the last year, masking and physical distancing have become a normal part of life. Now, as more people are becoming vaccinated, we are re-evaluat...
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What Precautions Do COVID-19 Vaccinated Cancer Patients Need to Take?
Sex and Cancer: What Women Should Know
Cancer and its treatments can trigger many changes to a woman’s body, and these changes may affect a patient’s sex life. It’s an all-too-common problem that many women are nervous to talk about, but it’s important to ask questions and seek answers. While th...
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Sex and Cancer: What Women Should Know
On the Front Lines of COVID-19: How Nurses at Fox Chase Held It Together and Continued to Give
By Marian Dennis In March 2020, Fox Chase Cancer Center was among thousands of healthcare facilities around the country facing the challenge of providing a continued high standard of care while adapting to changing information and protocols surrounding t...
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On the Front Lines of COVID-19: How Nurses at Fox Chase Held It Together and Continued to Give
A Working-Class Scientist
By Marian DennisOriginally published in the Summer/Fall 2020 Issue of ForwardGrowing up in Barcelona, Spain, Israel Cañadas, PhD, was fascinated by the world around him and dreamed of a career in science.Cañadas, now an assistant professor in the Blood Cell...
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