At 34 years old, Lowe noticed a tiny lump in her breast while doing a self-examination. The doctor waved it off, seemingly unconcerned, and the mother of three went back to the daily rigors of life.
Keesha Sharp has teamed up with the Pancreatic Cancer Collective, a joint initiative of Stand Up To Cancer and the Lustgarten Foundation to help promote pancreatic cancer clinical trials.
Because of a combination of public health policies, medical advances, and social reforms, the overall, age-adjusted cancer death rate has been falling since 1991 when it peaked at 215 cancer deaths per 100,000 people.
The SU2C–LUNGevity Foundation–American Lung Association Lung Cancer Interception Dream Team have developed laboratory models to understand the inflammatory process in the lung’s bronchial cells, and how that relates to early lung cancer development.
Two legendary literary figures, the late Lorraine Hansberry and the late James Baldwin are about to take to the virtual stage courtesy of Tony nominees Valisia LeKae and Daniel J. Watts.
LeKae is the executive producer of the project, which is an adaptation of Sweet Lorraine, co-written by Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj and Adam Mace.
The women are sitting down together at Doherty’s California home discussing her stage IV cancer diagnosis.
