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What is ductal carcinoma in situ? Everything to know about the cancer affecting Danielle Fishel

‘Boy Meets World’ actress Danielle Fishel is urging other women to get mammograms after revealing her breast cancer diagnosis. The 43-year-old from Arizona said on her podcast she had ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, a type of breast cancer that affects the milk ducts. It is stage 0, has not spread to other areas

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Entertainment

Danielle Fishel has breast cancer, found ‘very, very early’

Actor Danielle Fishel is meeting a health challenge head-on, predicting she will be “fine.” “I was recently diagnosed with DCIS, which stands for ductal carcinoma in situ, which is a form of breast cancer,” the “Boy Meets World” alumna, 43, said Monday on her “Pod Meets World” podcast. “It is very, very, very early. It’s

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Health

Mom-of-six, 53, died after Johnson and Johnson’s talc powder gave her cancer, lawsuit claims

It was a complete shock to the whole family when Theresa Garcia learned her coughing fits were the result of a rare cancer normally suffered by miners and construction workers. The 53-year-old from Chicago, Illinois, had worked in offices and spent most of her down time at home raising her six children. It wasn’t until they

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U.S.

Boy Meets World alum Danielle Fishel reveals she has been diagnosed with breast cancer

Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com  By Dailymail.com Reporter Published: 09:39 EDT, 19 August 2024 | Updated: 09:45 EDT, 19 August 2024 Danielle Fishel has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The 43-year-old actress – who is best known for playing Topanga Lawrence on the teen sitcom Boy Meets World – has revealed that she’s

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Tech

Tech Life: Detecting cancer using AI

The role machine learning can play in accurate blood tests for bowel cancer.

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Health

Cancer expert reveals how every new patient he sees is UNDER 45 – as he tells what they all have in common

A doctor is speaking up about the surge in cancer cases among young people – revealing ‘every new patient’ that comes to his clinic is under 45 years old. North Carolina’s Duke University oncologist Dr Nicholas DeVito says he and his colleagues have experienced a complete demographic switch in recent years. Based on what he’s

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Health

Skin cancer patients face delays of a year as NHS waiting list soars by a quarter

By Shaun Wooller, Health Editor For The Daily Mail Published: 19:10 EDT, 18 August 2024 | Updated: 19:16 EDT, 18 August 2024 Skin cancer care waiting lists have soared by a quarter since the pandemic, with patients facing delays of up to a year in starting treatment. Now politicians are calling for VAT to be

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Health

Breast cancer sufferers put in danger due to a major shortage of NHS staff who can deliver specialist scans, radiographers warn

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world. Each year in the UK there are more than 55,000 new cases, and the disease claims the lives of 11,500 women. In the US, it strikes 266,000 each year and kills 40,000. But what causes it and how can it be treated? What is

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Health

How NHS drug chiefs’ diktat that terminal cancer is only ‘moderately severe’ has left thousands at risk of missing vital treatment

A row has broken out between doctors, drug firms and the NHS spending watchdog over its refusal to give the green light to a lifeline drug for women with advanced breast cancer. Medics hailed Enhertu after trials showed it could extend the lives of thousands with one of the hardest to treat forms of the

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Health

The £1.7bn wave of new NHS drugs that can alter our DNA to beat heart disease, cancer and even blindness… and are already curing patients

Drugs that can edit and rewrite DNA are set to banish problems ranging from high cholesterol to blood cancer – ushering in what experts have deemed the greatest medical breakthrough since antibiotics. For example, the pioneering treatment has already been used to combat a number of previously incurable conditions. Earlier this month the NHS pledged

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