Breast Cancer

In 2009, when Sheila McGlown began battling metastatic breast cancer at the age of 43, she was already a skilled fighter. She’d spent 25 years in the U.S.…

St. Louis-area residents Rachel Webb and Jossalyn Larson come from different walks of life, but they have at least one path in common: They’ve both in…

The year 2018 didn’t go down quite like Jossalyn Larson or her family expected. After being diagnosed with breast cancer in May, Larson underwent several…

After being diagnosed with breast cancer a few months ago, Jossalyn Larson began traveling a path that one in eight U.S. women will find themselves on at…

A diagnosis of cancer is a life-altering experience.Jossalyn Larson, an English professor at Missouri S&T and resident of Owensville, Missouri, was…

For breast cancer patients, race and geography can mean the difference between surviving and succumbing.Washington University researchers have identified…

A new friend was scheduled for a mastectomy, but was now determined to get out of bed and cancel the surgery. So Ella Jones’ mothering instincts kicked…

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill is venturing out across Missouri to gather input and garner public support about making college less expensive.The Democratic…

In the past six years, staffers at Family Care Health Center in St. Louis have doubled the number of women coming in for regular mammograms.It’s part of a…

“I very recently learned that I have breast cancer,” Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., announced in a statement on Monday.In a note on her Tumblr page,…