Roughly 20 percent of women with breast cancer who should be receiving radiation therapy as a follow-up to surgery aren't getting it. Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center who conducted a study that uncovered this potentially deadly situation say the most common reason women cited for not considering radiation therapy was that their doctors did not recommend it. ...more

February 11, 2009

Drivers for a local radiation oncology group deliver vanloads of patients to and from treatment offices across Hillsborough County - patients who otherwise might not make it to their appointments. ...more

December 17, 2008

Drivers for a local radiation oncology group deliver vanloads of patients to and from treatment offices across Hillsborough County - patients who otherwise might not make it to their appointments. ...more

December 17, 2008

A Riverview woman working in a physician's office wrote prescriptions for oxycodone using fictitious names, Hillsborough County deputies say. ...more

September 9, 2008

Celebrating life after loss seemed the theme of the 2008 Calendar of Cancer Survivors. ...more

May 31, 2008

When Doris Sidoti of Valrico, a board member for the Southeast Hillsborough Unit of the American Cancer Society, approached Lila Campanelli-Purifoy about being a model for the 2008 Calendar of Cancer Survivors, she said her old inhibitions about being photographed seemed petty. ...more

December 6, 2007