Yale Cancer Answers
Yale Cancer Answers is a weekly radio show on WNPR focused on cancer screening, detection, treatment, and prevention to provide the latest information to listeners.
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Henry: Leukemia Survivor
Jenna and Brendan Baker were faced with the most difficult challenge of their life when their seemingly healthy two year old son was diagnosed with cancer. He went to the pediatrician with a fever that was not responding to the normal remedies. A blood test raised the suspicion for cancer and immediately Henry was sent to the Emergency Department at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital where doctors confirmed his diagnosis. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Read More
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Maureen Raucci, RN and Cheryl Gans, RN
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Jeanne: Pancreatic Cancer Survivor
Jeanne Czel went from enjoying retirement and playing golf in a benefit tournament in North Carolina, to a month later undergoing what would be one of the most difficult years of her life. It started with an uncomfortable feeling in her chest that she attributed to heart burn or acid reflux, although she had never experienced either before. After undergoing blood work, an MRI and a CAT scan, received a diagnosis of stage IV pancreatic cancer. Read More
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Bill: Melanoma Survivor
Bill Brown went to his primary care doctor and a local hospital in 2011 because he had swollen glands in his armpit. At the time, he made no connection between the discomfort he was feeling and the stage I melanoma lesion that his dermatologist had diagnosed and excised ten years prior. Read More
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Kelsey: Thyroid Cancer Survivor
On a day that I believed would be like any other day, I received the news that I had a tumor the size of a golf ball growing on my thyroid. My life now revolved around obtaining the best medical care for my condition. After a great deal of searching, my family and I found the perfect place where we all felt the most comfortable. Just down the road from Quinnipiac University, I found incredible health care providers at Smilow Cancer Hospital. Read Kelsey's story
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Leslie: Sarcoma Cancer Survivor
Leslie Riley loves the outdoors. An avid hiker in good health, she is also a wife with a blended family that includes two daughters, two sons, and a granddaughter. So, when she felt a strange twinge in the back of her leg in April of 2016, she was concerned. Read Leslie's story
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Greg: Breast Cancer Survivor
As a 39 year old man, the last thought on Greg DeMarco’s mind was that he could be diagnosed with breast cancer. He noticed a stain on the shirt he was wearing, and realized it was blood and that it was coming from his left nipple. Worried that something serious might be wrong, he scheduled an appointment with his general practitioner for the next day. They ran several tests, all of which came back normal. Unable to find a cause for the bleeding, Greg was sent for a mammogram where a calcification and a blockage of his duct were found. Read More
Patient and Cancer Information
Yale Cancer Center is Connecticut's only cancer center designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute- and one of only 49 in the nation. The significance of this designation has profound implications for those who choose Smilow Cancer Hospital as the place where they will be cared for and receive treatment for their cancer. National Cancer Institute cancer centers are national leaders in cancer research, prevention, detection, and treatment. This provides patients at Smilow Cancer Hospital with novel treatment options and expert care.
