I am Diane Rogers, I am survivor or 7 years 9 days. My story is I found a lump and I thought it was a cyst like I had cyst prior, so I got nearly in a hurry to even go to that surgeon and he found that it was cancer and my husband and I discussed it on the way out to the car and I told him the breast calm and after they did the surgery, this surgeon came in and talked to me and told me that was th...read more

What a Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma isMalignant fibrous histiocytoma has a new name according to our pathology colleagues here. The doctors that look at these cancers under the microscope, they now called it pleomorphic sarcoma. Regardless, it still is the same type of cancer. It is a sarcoma, which means that its a cancer outside of the organs. It most commonly shows up in the soft tissue or in...read more

Because I had a hysterectomy that would was a direct link to my osteoporosis. It is according to the National Institute of Health, the number one cause of osteoporosis in women. I also had all the other causes, family history. My mother and my grandmother both had it. I knew my grandmother had osteoporosis because she had a fracture to hip. And my mother had hunched, stoop over back. I did not rea...read more

Veronica: Hi! I am Veronica at watchmojo.com and today we are speaking with the Canadian Cancer Society to help raise awareness for breast cancer. What is breast cancer?Lyse Ratelle: Actually cancer per se starts from the cell. It's a disease that starts from the cell. So in the case of breast cancer, cells multiply out of control and form a lump or a mask in the breast.Veronica: Who is at risk fo...read more

Brad: Hi, I'm Brad from Boston. I smoke regularly in my house, I have a dog and I like to know will she be affected my second hand smoke?Kathy Garret: Well Brad, that's a really god question nobody has ever asked me that question but it's just so happens that recently there was a study out I think it's from Tufts University and cats who had been exposed to second smoke for 5 years or more had more...read more

Male Speaker 1: Some kids have blueness but not when they are born later on and is that possible that someone could have missed the fact the kid was some blue and the kid was a newborn and actually had cyanotic heart disease, is that possible?Male Speaker 2: Well, thats definitely possible. The nature of many of the conditions in general heart disease is that they are progressive. So that for inst...read more

Dr. Claudia Henschke: That when you do enroll in a CT screening program if you are currently smoking, that knowing what your lungs look like and, is a very powerful intense is to help you stop smoking. So we've introduced smoking cessation programs in our screening programs. And we think that's a very important combination. Because we think it's important. It makes a big difference to quit smoking...read more