Dr. Wooten's grandfather was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer the summer before she began her medical education at the University of Florida College of Medicine. Her family's experience during that time has shaped the way she cares for her own patients at Roswell Park.
While low-carb diets may appear to provide a “quick fix” when it comes to weight loss, evidence doesn't show that they help you lose weight in the long term. In fact, many diets that have been shown to be healthful patterns of eating are not low in carbohydrates. Here's the lowdown.
Throughout the chaos of 2020, Roswell Park's Cancer Talk blog brought you advice for dealing with the pandemic, tips for living a healthy lifestyle, essential information for cancer patients and survivors, and stories of hope and inspiration. Here we highlight some of our most popular articles from the past year.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the first COVID-19 vaccine marks a hopeful turning point in the fight against a virus that has taken so much from so many.
If food and drink don’t taste good to you — or worse, if they taste bad — you are less likely to eat and drink as much as you need. This can lead to weight loss, electrolyte imbalance, dehydration, slow healing and poor nutrition.
Every year more than 13,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer, which used to be one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths for women in the United States.
“I looked Dr. Hennon straight in the eyes, shook his hand, and told him that I have never lost and I have never quit. I don’t plan on starting now. Roswell may have been my last hope, but I had hope."
