cancer

Benefit slated to help ‘Aleksa fight’
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KATE DAY SAGER Era Reporter kdsager@bradfordera.com 
Jan 10, 2018
After Aleksa Carey was admitted to the hospital for treatment of cancer and couldn’t return home for almost a month, she told her mother she really "m...
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BRMC to offer Look Good Feel Better Nov. 13
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KATE DAY SAGER Era Reporter kdsager@bradfordera.com 
Oct 26, 2017
When Kim Graham’s sister was diagnosed with cancer in 2006, the Bradford beautician decided the best way to help her sibling was to assist her with he...
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Answers to the rising costs of cancer
Health
Alex Keown 
Sep 20, 2017
When a patient is diagnosed with cancer, fear is a typical reaction. But that fear can take several forms. Not only is a patient likely to be concerne...
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Emporium woman pens book of encouragement
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AMANDA JONES Era Correspondent amandajonesera@yahoo.com 
Sep 07, 2017
EMPORIUM — An Emporium resident has written a book chronicling her battle with oral cancer in an effort to remove the stigmatism behind the disease an...
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Resolution makes Sept. ‘Ovarian Cancer Month’ in Pa.
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SIDNEY PERALTA Era reporter erasidneyp@gmail.com 
Aug 19, 2017
With the help of Bradford woman Susan Evans, State Rep. Martin Causer, R-Turtlepoint, and other state legislators signed a resolution earlier in the s...
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Kids and Cancer run brings help to local families
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KATE DAY SAGER Era Reporter kdsager@bradfordera.com 
Jul 19, 2017
When doctors discovered a brain stem tumor in little Westen Smith last year, his family found themselves facing a lot of debt stemming from hospital s...
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McKean County’s Relay for Life set June 23-24
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ALEX DAVIS Era Reporter a.davis@bradfordera.com 
Jun 07, 2017
This year’s McKean County Relay for Life will be fun and games ––literally. The annual American Cancer Society event will be held from 4 p.m. June 23 ...
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A White House cancer
Opinion, Сolumns
RUTH MARCUS 
Feb 19, 2017
WASHINGTON — On March 21, 1973, White House counsel John Dean confronted President Richard Nixon about the growing Watergate scandal. "We have a cance...
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Tony Dolan Memorial Ski for Cancer set for Saturday
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RUTH BOGDAN Era Reporter r.bogdan@bradfordera.com 
Jan 23, 2017
The Tony Dolan Memorial Ski for Cancer will be held Saturday “no matter whether it snows or not,” said organizer Betsy Eschrich. Eschrich’s family con...
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Annual Ski for Cancer set for Jan. 28
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KATE DAY SAGER Era Reporter kdsager@bradfordera.com 
Dec 31, 2016
Over the past 38 years, Mike Dolan and his sister, Betsy Eschrich, have participated in almost all of the Tony Dolan Memorial Ski for Cancer benefits ...
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ELF Fund recipient to run again for Christmas
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AMBER TURBA Era Reporter bradforderanews@gmail.com 
Dec 01, 2016
(Editor’s note: The names in this story have been changed to protect the recipient’s identity.) Cindy Lou-Hoo has been facing down cancer for 25 years...
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