Aged just 17, I got sick. The kind of sick doctors can’t diagnose using a blood test or a scan; the kind of illness that’s talked about in whispers, behind closed doors, if it were even talked about at all.
It started on my first morning back to school after a blissful summer. I clearly remember walking through the school hall and everything suddenly seeming grey and bleak.
Today, I know this was my first experience of the terrible weight
A California woman diagnosed with breast cancer in her thirties was told by doctors her cancerous lump was just a side effect of stopping her birth control.
Sarah Citron, 33, had her intrauterine device (IUD), a type of birth control in the form of a tiny device inserted into the uterus, removed last November when she and her husband decided to try for a second child. Soon after, she noticed a lump in her armpit.
Mrs Citron, co-founder of Bricoleur
It looks like any other county road in rural America, but a two-mile dirt track in Minnesota might be one of the deadliest cancer hotspots in the country.
All four of the homes in the two-mile stretch along County Road B in Dodge County have been touched by the disease, with the area now so notorious other locals call it ‘cancer road’.
Since the 1980s, fifteen people have been diagnosed with tumors, often rarer and more aggressive forms, seven of
When she was a young girl, Hannah Fletcher was fascinated by the make-up on her mother’s dressing table. It looked good, smelled wonderful and had an air of feminine mystery about it.
‘My first memories are from when I was about four playing with my mum’s cosmetics on her chest of drawers,’ she says. ‘She had the face powder everyone used to plaster over themselves back then, and a big box of eyeshadows and lipsticks.
‘While she was doing her
The NHS has vowed to diagnose and treat cancer patients quicker after ministers accepted its request to streamline performance targets.
The controversial reforms will see the number of cancer waiting time indicators that hospitals are measured against slashed from ten to three.
Health chiefs argue the changes ‘reflect what matters most to patients’ and will improve care by reducing bureaucracy and ‘aligning with modern clinical practice’.
But critics described the move as ‘deeply worrying’ and accused the NHS and government
Khloe Kardashian takes fans a long as she embarks on a ‘really scary’ journey after discovering a suspicious bump on her face that turned out to be melanoma in the season three premiere of Hulu’s The Kardashians on Thursday.
The Good American founder, 38 — who is predisposed to the skin cancer — is asked about the ‘band-aid on your face’ by Scott Disick as he pays a visit to her Hidden Hills home.
She tells the audience that she
Wimbledon’s greatest ever singles champion Martina Navratilova today announced that she has been diagnosed with two forms of cancer.
Navratilova, 66, who won Wimbledon a record nine times, said she has been diagnosed with throat and breast cancer after discovering a swollen lymph node in her neck in November.
‘This double whammy is serious but still fixable,’ the Czech-born American , who is married to former Russian beauty queen Julia Lemigova, 50, said. ‘I’m hoping for a favorable outcome. It’s
An NHS oncology nurse was diagnosed with stage two aggressive cancer after her GP wrongly dismissed a lump in her breast as ‘nothing’, she claims.
Sophie Jackson, 26, from Bournemouth, Dorset, found the mass on her right breast in September last year and immediately went to her doctor to have it checked.
But she was told the lump was probably caused by her hormonal cycle and to wait four weeks to see if anything had changed.
Not content with that
Watching your child take their first steps is meant to be one of the most exciting milestones as a new parent.
But for Natasha and Alex Finney, their elation soon turned to horror after spotting what turned out to be cancer in their 11-month-old.
As AJ walked unaided for the first time, they noticed he had an unusual cloudiness in his right eye.
Alarmed, they took him to see doctors, who rushed through tests and diagnosed him with retinoblastoma.
Due
Bruce Willis, 67, has been diagnosed with a brain condition that affects his ability to understand language and will be stepping away from acting, his family has announced.
In a statement posted to social media, his family said: ‘To Bruce’s amazing supporters, as a family we wanted to share that our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some health issues and has recently been diagnosed with aphasia, which is impacting his cognitive abilities.
‘As a result of this and with much
