Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton said the only disability in life is a bad attitude. If you think 19-year-old Jake Olson has a disability because he is blind, then you…
My story starts five years ago. I needed to lose some weight and get in shape. I went to Clarksville Schwinn and bought my first road bike. On one of…
Cancer should only occur in old people — old people we don’t know. It was awful, as little kids, when our grandmom died of lung cancer. That was our frame…
Cancer is no joke, yet designer Emily McDowell found that humor can be a potent source of encouragement and courage for those touched by the disease. In 2015, McDowell, a…
We’ve known for some time that obesity is a significant risk factor for several types of cancer. Credible published research has linked increased rates of breast, colorectal, esophageal (throat), kidney…
The debate about the effectiveness of testing for prostate cancer still lingers, leaving prevention-minded guys puzzled about the facts. And understandably so, according to Matthew J. Fargen, M.D., Norton Community…
It was the Sunday afternoon before orientation on my first day of work at Norton Healthcare when my grandmother told me the story of “the man in the red coat”:…
Hair loss is a common side effect of chemotherapy and typically associated with significant distress and concern. This often-dreaded, emotionally charged outcome is no longer a forgone conclusion thanks to…
On April 1, 2013, we sat in an ear-nose-throat doctor’s office thinking that Jeff had pulled a muscle in his neck from playing basketball with our son. The doctor had…
I have followed Vice President Joseph Biden’s task to establish a “cancer moonshot” with equal parts excitement and skepticism. If you look at this all-out effort to accelerate cancer research…
After months of trying to figure out what the lump in my clavicle was, my ear-nose-throat doctor looked at me and said, “I think it’s cancer and I want it…
Three of the scariest words anyone may ever hear are, “You have cancer.” Three of the most hope-filled ones are, “You will survive!” Thanks to earlier detection, breakthrough research, enhanced…