Breast cancer patient grateful for navigator who was at her side

Karen Adams is thankful for the empowerment she gained from having cancer. Today, she’s helping other women fight their battles

A 10-year-old girl takes on cancer: ‘You just gotta do it.’

Family foundation pays it forward with a $500,000 gift to Hemby Children’s Hospital.

She’s a volunteer. A cancer patient. And a friend.

A cancer survivor currently in treatment, Schaefer is one of 1,200 volunteers across the Novant Health system who do their best to make each patient’s morning, noon and night as beautiful as it can be.

Cancer survivor pays-it-forward with gift of virtual reality headsets

At the Novant Health Wallace Cancer Institute in Salisbury, patients using virtual reality headsets have a new way to help them through infusion treatments and diagnostic imaging.

Marathoner Did Not Let Colorectal Cancer Knock Her Off Her Path

Today, she’s helping the Novant Health Foundation help others.

She Survived Breast Cancer. Now She’s Advocating for Others.

‘You’re going to be OK.’

Cancer Patient Becomes First Person Ever to Receive New Drug

Clinical trials and a team of cancer experts that’s close to home.

New research offers more reasons why mammography screenings are essential for breast health

For more than a year now, Americans have put regular healthcare needs on hold.

National Breast Cancer Foundation grant

Novant Health Cancer Prevention, Education and Early Detection team receives $10k grant from the National Breast Cancer Foundation for breast health services.

‘I went in for that mammogram, and I knew right away that something was up.’

Eight years ago, Susan Pfefferkorn went in for a routine mammogram at Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center. Susan was no stranger to breast cancer. She’d lost a college friend to the disease back in the 1980s, and her mother had been diagnosed post-menopause. As a result, Susan had always been proactive.

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