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Spectrum Health Cancer Center

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‘The best year of our lives’

On the agenda as Benny Boes battles a brain tumor: Whale sharks, northern lights and family time.

Are birth control pills tied to decline in ovarian cancer deaths?

Rates down 16 percent in U.S., 8 percent in Canada, and 10 percent in Europe over a decade.

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Cancer is mystery author’s real-life antagonist

Chris Renker hopes for a happy ending in his personal cancer story.

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Hope, healing and harmony

Music teacher Patricia Hazen beats cancer with help from a brother who donated stem cells.

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‘Such a ray of hope for us’

Benny Boes gets access to an experimental drug for brain cancer, thanks to efforts by a cancer doctor, drug company and insurer.

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‘I can’t spend too much time worrying’

Assistant principal learns to live with the unknowns: 'Honestly, none of us are guaranteed tomorrow. None of us are guaranteed tonight.'

‘We choose to live an awesome life’

As Benny Boes battles a brain tumor, he and his wife, Elise, plan to triumph over cancer by focusing on family time and making memories.

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‘Life’s not done until it’s done’

Cancer patient Steve Johnson says that moments are everything. He wants to spend whatever time he has left helping others.

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‘One day at a time’

Kathleen Corey finds a healing path forward after discovering early-stage breast cancer.

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‘We’re just continuing to fight it’

Embroiled in a war with mesothelioma, Jim Phillips is armed to the hilt—with tenacity, strength and optimism.

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Living with cancer … for five days

Early lung cancer detection may have saved Kathleen Yeomans' life.

Celebrating Christmas blessings

'I already got my Christmas wish: the gift of life,' says a bone marrow transplant patient.