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Craig Stoltz

Craig Stoltz, Health Guide

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Changes in Lifestyle Could Diminish Health Care Crisis

The American Cancer Society has determined that raising awareness about cancer isn't going to be fully effective unless people have insurance to detect and treat it. According to a report in the New York Times, the group will spend its whole $15 million annual advertising budget to convey the message that progress against cancer will be... Read moreChevron
PJ Hamel

PJ Hamel, Health Guide

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Author, breast cancer survivor

Cancer and Politics

If the Livestrong Presidential Cancer Forum is any indicator, the next President of the United States will lead a “war on cancer.” All six of the candidates who participated in the cancer forum said words to that effect. Unfortunately, with more than half the Presidential candidates skipping the forum, there’s no guarantee that... Read moreChevron
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PJ Hamel

PJ Hamel, Health Guide

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Author, breast cancer survivor

Metastatic Breast Cancer: Hope on the Horizon?

Metastasis is a word none of us likes to hear. Metastatic is what we don’t want our cancer to turn into. Metastases–the dreaded “mets”–is what we don’t want to have. Sadly, many of us are familiar with metastasis–the process of breast cancer cells leaving your breast, setting up shop in another part of... Read moreChevron
PJ Hamel

PJ Hamel, Health Guide

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Author, breast cancer survivor

MRI Update: Another Step Towards Replacing the Mammogram?

Early last spring, the American Cancer Society issued new guidelines calling for women in certain breast cancer risk groups to be screened via MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), as well as mammography. At the same time, the New England Journal of Medicine, in its March 29 issue, detailed a national study whose results indicated that women... Read moreChevron
Craig Stoltz

Craig Stoltz, Health Guide

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Health Journalist

Lance Armstrong's Cancer Forum Suggestions

Craig Stoltz, former Health Editor of the Washington Post, weighs in with his thoughts on the Livestrong Presidential Cancer Forum.  The risk with any debate, forum, town hall meeting, or virtual digital interaction is the risk of a gas leak. Which is to say a rush of hot air, as candidates deliver their well-rehearsed bob-and-weave... Read moreChevron

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