Hospitals and health systems nationwide, including Michigan Medicine, now tap advocates who bring compassionate and customized help to cancer patients.

Read about how setting a big goal — climbing Africa’s tallest mountain — helped Kelly Luck, who was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, get through day-to-day treatment.

Participation in clinical trials is one way a mother fights back against cancer. She also volunteers with cancer patients and is working to boost research funds to study her own disease.

A breakthrough treatment supported by a multitude of federal agencies helped one woman beat cancer, leading her to speak out about the importance of continuing such work.

The story of one man with stomach cancer — and thousands more patients like him — demonstrates the lifesaving power of research and discovery.

Learn more about how Michigan Medicine specialists are combining new techniques to improve prostate cancer diagnosis.

Stage 4 colon cancer survivor Phil Scamihorn shares his inspiring journey to becoming cancer-free after a colon cancer diagnosis in 2012.

Learn how Michigan Medicine doctors are taking steps to make crucial colonoscopy screening a little easier.

A family history of cancer had been a longtime fact of life for one Michigan Medicine nurse. After digging deeper — and being diagnosed herself — she learned why.

Learn five symptoms that are early warning signs of colorectal cancer and find out how your family history impacts your colon cancer risk.

A Michigan Medicine expert explains implications of increasing colon cancer diagnosis among young people and how this impacts the age at which you should begin getting screened for colon cancer.

Learn more about how people with a genetic predisposition to cancer can benefit from support groups as much as cancer patients, but options for the former group are limited.

Some genetic mutations linked to breast cancer also can affect men, but in a different way. A Michigan Medicine urologist explains the connection.

What do you do when you’re diagnosed with an ultra-rare disease? For one patient, the answer was simple: Find the experts and never give up.

Tori has been living with a stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis for three years. See her advice for coping with a cancer diagnosis and tips for navigating cancer care.