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Patients, upon receiving a cancer diagnosis, experience such devastation that they contemplate suicide, and it brings untreated suffering to their caregivers.

Richard Roundtree, Star of “Shaft,” Is Dead at 81. What You Should Know About His Cancer.

Michael Hunter, MD - October 29, 2023

ACTOR RICHARD ROUNDTREE, the iconic private detective from the 1970s action film “Shaft,” is dead at 81. As a doctor who treats individuals with cancer,...

Is Height Related to Cancer Risk?

Michael Hunter, MD - March 15, 2022

MARCH IS COLORECTAL CANCER AWARENESS MONTH in the United States. Today, we look at the relationship between height and the chances of getting colon cancer....

Obesity: Do Men and Women Have Different Brains?

Michael Hunter, MD - April 23, 2023

NEW RESEARCH SUGGESTS THAT OBESITY affects the brain in sex-dependent ways. Specific brain parts appear different when we compare males and females with high body mass indexes.

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