This week, the Commissioners were joined by Amy Roberts, RBOI & Chair of the Cancer Alliance of Marion County to proclaimed November as Lung Cancer Awareness Month.
I found a lump in my breast.” We hear this line most often concerning breast cancer detection, but breast cancer can exhibit other signs, too. Some may be due to benign causes, but see your doctor if these signs persist or worsen:
Prostate cancers tend to grow slowly. Some tumors never become a problem, but this is not always the case. One monitoring tool is a blood test for prostate-specific antigen, or PSA.
Cancer navigation deals with every aspect of a cancer survivor’s health care, which can include one’s primary care physician and any specialists
treating other medical conditions.
Radiation treatment can sound intimidating if you don’t know what to expect. External beam radiation, the most common type used in cancer treatment, takes just a few minutes per session. During that time, a machine called a linear accelerator aims a beam of high-energy X-rays at cancer tumors. The beam damages the DNA of cancer cells, killing them while leaving healthy tissues intact.