March 2016 was a life-changing time for the Davis family. On March 23, Matt Davis and his wife, Hailey, celebrated the birth of their son, Finley. The next day, Matt…
There’s a lot of information floating around about food and nutrition and how these contribute to your risk for disease, including cancer. Sorting through the news and research, some of…
Jeanne Pierce is working through stage 4 lung cancer and enjoys having some fun with Michael F. Driscoll, M.D., her oncologist with Norton Cancer Institute. A few days before the…
A diagnosis of breast cancer often comes as a shock, and adjusting to the news and coming to terms with treatment decisions are very difficult. One may go through a range…
Seth Thomas, financial counselor, Norton Brownsboro Hospital, has been riding in Bike to Beat Cancer since 2009. Back then, the event was a 150-mile ride from Louisville to Lexington —…
Karen Allen, R.N., oncology patient navigator for Norton Cancer Institute, sees the patient navigator role as a “bridge across the canyon of uncertainty” for patients who are newly diagnosed with…
An unfortunate reality is that everyone has been touched by cancer in some way. Mary Cambron, pharmacy director for Norton Audubon Hospital and Norton Hospital, first faced cancer when the…
Why does a blood cancer start in the skin? Lymphomas are cancers of the immune system, which generally arise in lymph nodes and other lymphatic tissue. The immune system consists…
Dense breast tissue can make it hard to find cancers on mammograms because dense tissue and cancers both look white on a mammogram. By comparison, fatty tissue looks dark. In…
When Beth Hubbard was diagnosed with breast cancer, she forced herself to attend a support group to be around people who had been through what she was going through. “I…
How do you tell your family you have incurable brain cancer? How do you go on with life while facing an uncertain prognosis? These are difficult questions that many of…
During one patient’s brain surgery, Kellie Kopp, R.N., noticed the patient’s wife sitting in the waiting room alone. So she joined her. “I couldn’t stand that she was there by…