Category Archives: chemotherapy

Lung cancer diagnosis offered many lessons to this research technician

Posted on June 16, 2020 by

BY AMBER SMITH Wanda Coombs went for her annual medical exam in January 2016. “I wasn’t even going to tell the doctor I had a cough, because in January everybody has a cough, but at the end of the appointment, … Continue reading →

Posted in cancer, chemotherapy, health care, lung/pulmonary

Softening the blow of chemotherapy

Posted on June 4, 2020 by

BY AMBER SMITH Some types of chemotherapy deplete bone marrow stem cells that are responsible for the body’s daily production of blood cells. That is debilitating for many patients, who may become so sick they require hospitalization. Their cancer treatment may be … Continue reading →

Posted in cancer, chemotherapy, health care, research

He specializes in cancer care; now he’s got patient experience as well

Posted on June 1, 2020 by

BY AMBER SMITH In the weeks before nurse practitioner Ibrahim Thabet turned 31, he took care of patients with cancer, as he has for more than eight years at Upstate. In the weeks after his birthday, he became a cancer … Continue reading →

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Subtle symptoms: Her ovarian cancer required surgery and chemotherapy

Posted on December 30, 2019 by

BY AMBER SMITH She’s 52 and still alive, so Aimee Derbyshire feels as if she had survived a family curse. She lost a great-grandmother, grandmother, mother, aunt and sister to various cancers, each before they turned 50. Derbyshire and another sister are … Continue reading →

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 Living his life: He worked treatment for non-Hodgkin lymphoma into his college schedule

Posted on December 27, 2019 by

BY AMBER SMITH John Hrbac is a junior at George Washington University. He travels the East Coast with the school’s debate team. Over the summer he visited Europe. He’s studying for the law school admission test. At 21, the young … Continue reading →

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Noah, a young cancer patient, thinks he’s famous

Posted on December 23, 2019 by

The kids and the doctors you see on Upstate Medical University banners and billboards are real kids and real doctors. Meet Noah Axtell, who is now 7. Maybe you saw him on a billboard, or on a banner hanging inside … Continue reading →

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Pint-sized patient: Glimpses of a girl who fought cancer — and won

Posted on December 11, 2019 by

PHOTOS BY MARANIE STAAB/TEXT BY JIM HOWE Kaylee Marshfield of Lakeland received unforgettable news on Feb. 1, 2018. It was her sixth birthday: She had cancer. A strange lump led to tests that detected a Wilms tumor on her left … Continue reading →

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She’s beating the odds, thanks to her ‘tenderhearted’ oncologist

Posted on October 25, 2019 by

BY SUSAN KEETER On an August day, Kathi Tamer and her cousins were making Lebanese string cheese. The process involves kneading hot cheese curd into braids and rolling them in caraway seeds. While they cooked, they talked about oncologist Stephen Graziano, MD, … Continue reading →

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What cancer taught one mom: Keep things as normal as possible

Posted on February 18, 2019 by

BY SUSAN KEETER Levi Haddad was about to turn 4 when he went with his mother to her doctor’s appointment in November 2017. The youngster was tugging on his ears. The doctor felt a line of bumps where Levi’s neck … Continue reading →

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