Think Pink!
Each Wednesday throughout October The Paducah Sun will publish a special “pink” section dedicated to educating and engaging our readers about breast cancer and breast cancer prevention.
A portion of the money raised through Think Pink will go to the local office of the American Cancer Society and be used in the region for breast cancer programs.
Contributed by Vanderbilt University
A station where patients receive chemotherapy drugs at the new Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Green Hills facility in Nashville, Tenn.
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The option of administering chemotherapy before a lumpectomy or mastectomy both solves and creates a challenge for breast cancer patients. For some with breast cancer, undergoing chemo before su...
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Dr. David Koelsh, chief surgeon at Murray-Calloway County Hospital.
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A long time ago, breast cancer surgery meant the removal of either part or all of a breast, with separate reconstruction to go “back to normal.” Now, a new surgery technique that is gaining popular...
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Cathy Seay, mammogram technician at Murray-Calloway County Hospital, stands in her office. Seay found her breast cancer through her yearly mammography and advocates yearly checkups for all of her patients.
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As a mammogram technician at Murray-Calloway County Hospital, Cathy Seay has been diligent in making sure she got her yearly mammogram. She had only missed one, and the very next check-up she learn...
Corianne Egan | The Sun
Although exercise does have to be cleared by a doctor first, light workouts with low weights and cardio generally help keep joints functional.
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During her radiation treatments for breast cancer, Keena Miller was always tired. Even just getting out of bed some days was hard. “The fatigue, I can’t even describe it,” Miller said. “It was n...
ADAM SHULL | The Sun
Standing alongside one another is what Kandice Birney, left, and Neshia Stacy have learned to do while working together at Ferguson Enterprises, 5119 Heartland Drive. Stacy, a 16-year breast cancer survivor, never imagined she would again need support while helping Birney fight through breast cancer diagnosed in 2009.
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Five years is the general standard, doctors told Neshia Stacy. Go five years cancer-free after chemotherapy and radiation in 1995 to battle breast cancer, and she’d have reasonable assurance tha...
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Victoria Seng, center, stands in front of the Biltmore House in Ashville, N.C., with her family 18 months after she completed her last chemotherapy session.
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Victoria Seng teaches nursing classes at University of Tennessee at Martin. Every semester, she has devotes a lecture to breast cancer and interacting with patients who have the disease. After Seng...
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Too many women who have endured mastectomies have also endured lymphedema without getting help, according to Jadranko Franjic, physical therapist. Franjic works at the Vanderbilt Lymphedema Ther...
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Acupuncture not only helps relieve stress, but has clinically been proven to raise the white blood cell count in a person's body. Higher white blood cell counts can help a patient fight cancer, but can also help the body recover quicker from chemotherapy.
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When the word “cancer” comes to mind, treatments associated with it are usually chemotherapy and radiation. While those two are still the most widely used forms of therapy for cancer patients, supp...
ADAM SHULL | The Sun
Dorisanna Hall, right, of Paducah enjoys a coffee drink with her granddaughter Kali Conner, middle, and family friend Kate Story at Etcetera Coffeehouse, 320 N. Sixth St. Caffeine may not be one of the common supplements to help fight breast cancer, but medical professionals have some suggestions.
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The saying around the Vanderbilt University Medical Center is that if coffee prevented cancer then no doctor would ever suffer from the disease. Put more scientifically, caffeine has shown no co...
Margaret Ivitts, a breast cancer survivor, holds her newborn grandson, Carter, the day after her last chemotherapy treatment.Contributed photo
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Five years ago, Margaret Ivitts had an itch. She felt something strange, then had her husband investigate it. Doctors couldn’t tell what the lump was, so she had a biopsy. Within a few weeks of scr...
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An increased risk for breast cancer can lie undetected in a woman’s genetic profile. BRCA1 and BRCA2 are genes that normally suppress cell growth. A person who inherits certain mutations in a BR...
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