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Courtney Nelson and her children

“I always considered myself super healthy. When you check the box, it was, ‘My health is awesome.’”

Courtney Nelson began having digestive issues at age 38. She assumed all was fine since she was young, ate healthy, exercised frequently and didn’t have anything troubling in her family history. When the pain increased, she wound up in the MUSC emergency room, where doctors discovered a tumor and diagnosed her with stage-2 colon cancer. With treatments now complete, Nelson is on a mission to increase awareness.

 

Read her story

 
 
 
Dr. Krieg in the lab

New technology makes complex bioinformatics easy to visualize

Carsten Krieg, Ph.D., works each day with “very new and nerdy technology” to take pictures of a person’s immune system. This technology helps determine what makes immunotherapy treatments successful and which cancer patients are most likely to have a positive response. Using a mass cytometry machine that can heat plasma up to more than 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit, scientists are able to take something large and complex and make it easy to visualize.

 

Read about this new technology

 
 
 
Women's Forum

Calling all women

The third annual Linda Floyd Forum on Women’s Cancers One-in-Three Tea will be held Wednesday, April 25, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Charles Towne Landing’s Founders Hall. All women are invited to join us for this free event. Learn about the latest developments in genetic testing, how stress and cancer are linked, practical tips for reducing your cancer risk and more.

 

Register today

 
 
 
 

Save the Date

Swing for a Cure

June 22 to 23

Swing for a Cure Kickoff Part and Golf Tournament
Harborside East & Links at Patriots Point

Registration now open

Annual Golf Tournament

Sept. 24

23rd Annual Hollings Cancer Center Golf Tournament
Turtle Point, Kiawah Island Golf Resort

Gourmet and Grapes

Jan. 31 to Feb. 3

11th annual Gourmet & Grapes
Kiawah Island Golf Resort

 
 

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