In 2011 Baltimore native, Ivelisse Page, launched an organization called Believe Big, a non-profit foundation committed to helping patients and their families through a cancer diagnosis. Page, a stage 4 colon cancer survivor, has a mission to educate the cancer community about using a combination of modern medicine and complementary, less mainstream therapies. Page praises […]
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Pregnancy Tests Able To Detect Cancer
When a woman becomes pregnant and the embryo implants into the lining of the uterus, the trophoblast cells give off a hormone called human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG). In standard pregnancy tests, hCG is detected and causes a reaction, resulting in a positive or negative result. The same trophoblast cells also exist in malignant cancer […]
