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Health / September/October 2023

Are We Losing the War on Cancer?

September 18, 2023September 18, 2023 - by Renée Pellerin

For half a century, we have thrown everything we have at the disease, but we are no closer to curing it

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Health

Faith Healers Are Back, and They’re Getting Rich

August 17, 2023August 17, 2023 - by Matthew Remski

Spiritual pseudoscience is everywhere on social media with promises to cure diseases. It may also be costing lives

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Memoir

Surgery Minimized My Chances of Getting Cancer. It Also Altered My Self-Image

November 22, 2022November 23, 2022 - by Carey Toane

Because of a hereditary gene mutation, I removed my breast tissue, ovaries, and fallopian tubes. I had to unlearn a lot of feelings about how I look

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Podcasts

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October 6, 2021December 15, 2021 - by Steve Shih

S3E7 of The Conversation Piece Podcast

Health

How Big Tobacco Set the Stage for Fake News

May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 - by Daniel J. Robinson

A coordinated program of public deception that spanned four decades has become a template for modern disinformation

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Memoir

Finding My Voice as My Mother Lost Hers

March 24, 2021October 19, 2021 - by Minelle Mahtani

Not long after I started my job as a radio host, my mother told me she had tongue cancer

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Society

Taking Hallucinogens with My Mom

April 14, 2020April 16, 2020 - by Rachel Matlow

When my mother was diagnosed with cancer, she didn’t want chemo. Instead, she tried every other potion under the sun

Pink breast cancer cells under a microscope.

Health

Do Breast Cancer Screenings Do More Harm Than Good?

February 5, 2019November 14, 2019 - by The Walrus Staff

Doctors debate with author Renée Pellerin on the evidence of whether mammograms save lives

Illustration of a comic by Teva Harrison

Uncategorized

Without You

December 7, 2015April 7, 2020 - by Teva Harrison

Thirty-seventh in a series of comics about living with metastatic cancer

Uncategorized

Happily Ever After

November 9, 2015April 8, 2020 - by Teva Harrison

Thirty-fifth in a series of comics about living with metastatic cancer

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