Cancer Care
Read about the innovative approaches taken by Duke doctors to treat cancer -- and the people whose lives have been affected.
Beating Metastatic Cancer After Treatment at Duke
Chris Biggar was only 36 years old when he was diagnosed with a rare kind of metastatic colon cancer. After several surgeries and immunotherapy at Duke Cancer ...
Support Empowers Young Adult After Cancer
When Hope Reynolds was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer at the age of 21, she felt like her body had betrayed her. She had no family history of cancer. No ...
Self-Image Services Restore Confidence
One of the toughest moments during Debra Calhoun’s treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma came when her hair started falling out. “Even though they tell you to e ...
Innovative Treatment at Duke Offers Hope to Some People with Lung Cancer
A promising treatment called pulsed electric field (PEF) ablation is offering hope to people with lung cancer or cancers metastasized to the lungs who haven’t ...
Mom with Endometrial Cancer Thankful for Fast Treatment at Duke
Raquel Ferreyra had just separated from her husband and was adjusting to life as a single mother of three teenagers when she was diagnosed with endometrial can ...
Medical Family Therapy Helps Family Cope with Dad’s Cancer
When Joe McFadden received cancer treatment at Duke, his eight-year-old son, Emerson, worried that his dad would be lonely. Duke medical family therapist Ellie ...
Support Group Helps Men Cope with Prostate Cancer
Eight years ago, Art Krueger had to navigate the complexities of prostate cancer alone after he was diagnosed just five days before his wife passed away from b ...
Back on the Tennis Court Weeks After Surgery for Esophageal Cancer
When avid tennis player Joseph Mesiano, 73, was diagnosed with esophageal cancer, he got an appointment at Duke Cancer Center Raleigh right away. Three years a ...
Duke Experts Help Woman with Metastatic Cancer Live Longer, Better
In Fall 2020, after beating breast cancer nearly 20 years earlier, Janet Gorence Davas learned the cancer was back and it had spread. She underwent surgery and ...
Duke Palliative Care brinda apoyo adicional a un policía estatal con sarcoma de Ewing
Cuando a Zach Martin lo diagnosticaron con cáncer de hueso metastásico en diciembre de 2022, un nuevo programa de cuidados paliativos en Duke Health brindó el ...
Duke Palliative Care Provides Extra Support for State Trooper with Ewing Sarcoma
When Zach Martin was diagnosed with metastatic bone cancer in December 2022, a new palliative care program at Duke Health provided the extra medical and psycho ...
KidsCan! Connects Kids to Talk about Parents’ Cancer
The KidsCAN! team approached Graham Alexander and his family shortly after his wife, Elizabeth, was transferred to the Duke Cancer Center from another hospital ...