Deanna Denham Hughes was stunned when she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer last year. She was only 32. She had no family history of cancer, and tests found no genetic link. Hughes wondered why she, an otherwise healthy Black mother of two, would develop a malignancy known as a “silent killer.”
Simplified test effective in predicting smoking addiction in cancer patients
Data from nearly 6000 smokers with cancer show that it may be easier to predict who will stop smoking than was previously thought.
August 12, 2024