Fighting Cancer

Breast Cancer & Sexual Intimacy

Does the diagnosis of one lead to an end of the other?

By:

Lauren Kramer, Special Sections Feature

Sexual intimacy is one way couples bond and reaffirm their affection for and their attractiveness to one another. For patients living with a breast cancer diagnosis, those affirmations are more important than ever. But getting intimate can be complicated when your libido is compromised by the very drugs you hope will cure you. Women living with a breast cancer diagnosis...

Fighting Cancer

A Cure at Last?

One doctor looks for ‘an explosion’ in the next decade’s battle to bring breast cancer to its knees

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Rachel Vigoda, Special Sections Feature

President John F. Kennedy pledged in 1961 to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. It took less than nine years to accomplish. In 1971, President Richard Nixon promised there would be a cure for cancer in 10 years. It’s been 41 — and researchers are just starting to figure out what’s taking so long...

Fighting Cancer

PSA Screenings Under Attack

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Elyse Glickman, Jewish Exponent Feature

Though common sense dictates that men and women should do everything in their power to think proactive and preventative when it comes to their reproductive health, a recent study conducted by the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force made headlines with a hefty claim that blood tests intended to spot prostate cancer could also have unexpected side effects and that, perhaps,...