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Questions to Ask Your Doctor
A new cancer diagnosis is frightening and most patients do not know what to expect. Hearing the word “cancer” will likely start your thoughts racing with questions like, “Will I die? What will my family…
Four Proven Ways to Prevent Cancer
In my practice, people often ask me about ways to prevent cancer. Sometimes it’s a patient finishing his cancer treatment, hoping to do all he can to keep his cancer from coming back. Sometimes it’s a…
What Do I Need to Treat My Side Effects During Radiation?
Radiation therapy is a type of local treatment. This means that it is focused on a particular part of the body, and does not travel throughout the body. Because of this, radiation treatment causes side…
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Why Do We Use Chemotherapy with Radiation?
By Sarah Joy Patterson-Webb MSN, APRN, AGACNP-BC Your doctors may recommend that you receive chemotherapy while you are receiving radiation treatment. You may see or hear this be called concurrent treatment,…
Kick Cancer Chili Cookoff
You are invited to Alliance Cancer Care's Inaugural Kick Cancer Chili Cookoff! Benefiting the Dr. Jeanne Shepherd Fund, come out to Clearview Cancer Institute to see who wins the Chili Cookoff, win prizes,…
Missing Radiation Treatment
By Mike Taylor, Director of Physics & Dosimetry at Alliance Cancer Care Radiation therapy is typically administered daily, lasting only a few minutes for each treatment session.Though each session is…
High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy for Gynecological…
By Jamone Williams, Physicist at Alliance Cancer Care Brachytherapy is a type of radiation therapy that is delivered by placing radioactive sources into or near the area to be treated. The word “brachy”…
Alliance Cancer Care to Open New Integrated Cancer…
Alliance Cancer Care, an Alliance Oncology network partnership representing six sites of service including physician partners and Helen Keller Hospital, announced today that it will open a new integrated…
Seven Things to Know About Getting a Mammogram
In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, check out this infographic from the American Cancer Society to learn seven things to know about getting a mammogram.