Today, you can catch Lindsay Roush at the rink with the local roller derby team. But a few short years ago, she felt sidelined by her weight. Since 2013, she’s lost more than 200 pounds with the help of lifestyle…
It was the intense cramping that woke her up that cold, January morning. She had noticed some recent weight gain around her stomach and it had become sore to the touch. After taking some pain relievers, Monica Hay, then a…
The call came on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day seven years ago. Michelle Buscher, then 42 years old, was soundly slumbering, enjoying the last day of a three-day weekend before going back to work. Her phone rang promptly at 8…
When Carol Harms went in for her annual mammogram this February and a suspicious spot was found, she didn’t give it too much thought. There’s very little presence of cancer in her family. And she had been feeling intermittently unwell…
As program coordinator of Memorial Medical Center’s palliative care program, Kelli Fisher has been a source of strength and stability to hundreds of patients for the last decade, many of them facing their own battles with cancer. What she didn’t…
Adding 3D mammography to your traditional mammogram increases cancer detection and reduces false-positive results, according to a study published last year in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Also known as breast tomosynthesis, 3D mammography is a type of…
When Lisa Woods received the news she had breast cancer, she wasn’t surprised. As the seventh woman in her family to have breast cancer, she was braced to hear the news from her doctor one day. Lisa, who’s 46 and…
No matter how old you grow, no matter how bad the news, Mom and Dad always know just what to say. When Becca Moots heard her doctor tell her in 2007 that she had breast cancer, all she could think…
After a long day of work last March, Virginia native Barbara Arenz decided to relax by watching one of her favorite shows—Grey’s Anatomy. It showed a patient undergoing a unique treatment, where a special drug was given to make the…
Joseph Smith whips up breakfast for his four adopted daughters. The sisters squirm in their assigned seats around the kitchen island, waiting for the morning meal. Joseph’s wife, Linda, selects their clothes for the school day. After breakfast and dressing…