A Maryland prosecutor is telling his cancer survival story in the hopes that it helps someone else get treatment for the potentially deadly, but treatable, disease.
DHR Purple Project sheds light on cancer awareness
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June is National Cancer Survivor month and DHR Health Advanced Care Center is hosting a Purple Project 5K run or walk. We want to help celebrate the cancer survivors of all cancers and also we will have a small ceremony to remember those that we have lost, as well,” said April Chapa, a community outreach coordinator.
Dr. Carlos Herrera is a gynecologist and says cervical cancer is extremely common. We see it in much advanced stages, Herrera said. The problem is it gets diagnosed very late because a lot of these women do not get their pap smears and now you see why it s very important to screen.
Lung Cancer Research Foundation and EGFR Resisters Announce Partnership
Groups join forces to fund mutation-specific research
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NEW YORK, June 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Lung Cancer Research Foundation (LCRF) is excited to announce a partnership with leading lung cancer patient advocacy group, the EGFR Resisters. This multi-year partnership will kick off on June 6
th, National Cancer Survivor s Day, in a joint effort in 2021 to fund an LCRF Pilot Grant related to EGFR positive lung cancer.
People with EGFR positive lung cancer represent a significant number of patients diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer. Approximately 10-15% of patients with non-small cell lung cancer in the United States and 35% in Asia have an EGFR positive mutation. In the U.S., more than 20,000 people are diagnosed with EGFR positive lung cancer each year. Although there has been an increase in progression-free survival in patients due to target