Norris Cotton Cancer Center

After meeting with cancer experts and counselors at Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Norris Cotton Cancer Center, good friends Amy and Cathy were able to slow down, learn about their options, and make the best decision for them.

"If what I do in this clinical trial can help one woman in the future, then I've done a wonderful thing."

"One thing I have found at Norris Cotton Cancer Center is that no matter how much time I need to talk or ask questions, the doctors give it to me. I never feel rushed, or that I am inconveniencing them."

"I don't think she could have received any better care than here at Norris Cotton Cancer Center in St. Johnsbury"

"Just when I thought life had handed me too much, I found myself surrounded by people there to support me."

In this episode Jack Heath talks with Diane Houle and Andrea Gilbert about the Green Mountain Motorcycle Ride (GMMR).

The recently released recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) regarding the use of screening mammography for breast cancer raised questions and concerns for many women and their families and friends. On November 24, Norris Cotton Cancer Center released a statement on the USPSTF recommendations. And now, in this special episode of Life After Cancer, host Jack Heath and Cancer Center physician Steven P. Poplack, MD, discuss the USPSTF recommendations.

More than 200,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year. That's why screening and early detection are so important. In this episode, we talk with Norris Cotton Cancer Center oncology nurse Laura Urquhart and Shirley, a breast cancer survivor from Orford, New Hampshire. Shirley shares her experience after a routine mammogram revealed a tumor in her breast that was the size of a grain of sand.