More articles about: Cancer Care

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How Music Therapy Complements Cancer Care

Skilled musicians provide therapeutic power in a health care setting. Learn more about the unique artistic partnership.
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Beating Stage 4 Colon Cancer with Trust, Treatment and Community

Stage 4 colon cancer survivor Phil Scamihorn shares his inspiring journey to becoming cancer-free after a colon cancer diagnosis in 2012.
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Two Ways to Have a More Comfortable Colonoscopy

Learn how Michigan Medicine doctors are taking steps to make crucial colonoscopy screening a little easier.
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‘Everything Pointed to Michigan’: Treating a Rare Cancer from a Distance

What do you do when you’re diagnosed with an ultra-rare disease? For one patient, the answer was simple: Find the experts and never give up.
NSCLC patient Tori and her children
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‘I Had A Hunch’: Finding Cancer Care Thanks to a Rare Genetic Mutation

Married mother of three tells her NSCLC treatment story. Learn more about Tori's non-small cell lung cancer treatment including crizotinib and chemotherapy.
A doctor sharing a cancer diagnosis with a patient
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Sharing the News of Cancer: Three First-Person Reflections

Delivering & receiving cancer diagnosis can be hard. Learn more about sharing bad news with three cancer diagnosis stories from patients, families, and doctors.
Prostate cancer survivor Rodney Dan Marolf
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Portraits of Progress: a Prostate Cancer Patient Documents His Treatment

Rodney documented his prostate cancer treatment by taking a picture after every chemotherapy treatment. Learn more about Rodney's prostate cancer survival story.
University of Michigan art therapy supplies
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Complementary Cancer Therapies: Can They Really Help?

Complementary cancer therapies like art therapy & guided imagery sessions help lessen the discomfort of treatment. Here's more on complementary cancer treatments.