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Sixteen Years Clear, Then it Came Back: A Husband’s Reckoning with Cancer, Faith, and the Ordinary Courage of Carrying On
For sixteen years, cancer became something we spoke about in the past tense. My wife, Lynn, had survived a rare smooth-muscle cancer (leiomyosarcoma) after two operations in 2009. Year after year the scans came back clear. Gradually, we stopped living…
Respiratory Infections Trigger Metastatic Breast Cancer in the Lungs
Common respiratory infections, including COVID-19 and influenza, can awaken dormant breast cancer cells that have spread to the lungs, setting the stage for new metastatic tumours. The study published in Nature , 30 July, included findings obtained in mouse models…