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Sitting on the bleachers, cheering on her high school-aged daughter and supporting her family on the basketball court – this was Kim Harrison’s amazing life. She is a wife, a mother of six and a grandmother of 14.  Harrison is committed to being at every event, big or small, cheering on her loved ones on or off the field. She had no idea that shortly after her daughter’s wedding in April 2013, her family would become her cheerleaders as she faced the curveball of her life — cancer. Months after her...

Hundreds of prostate cancer survivors are expected to fill the stands at Comerica Park on Tuesday, June 20, when the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute , in partnership with the Detroit Tigers and McLaren Health Care, the official health care system of the Tigers, join forces to promote prostate cancer awareness. During this third annual Prostate Cancer Awareness Night, fans will have the opportunity to learn more about prostate cancer screenings, signs, and symptoms as they cheer on the Detroit Tige...

Hailed by attendees as a ground-breaking, courageous endeavor to better understand and improve disparities in cancer care, the Black Men’s Cancer Action Council (CAC) of Karmanos Cancer Institute’s Office of Cancer Health Equity and Community Engagement (OCHECE) hosted an in-depth and spirited symposium on May 20 at Detroit’s Fellowship Chapel. Local, state and nationally-acclaimed cancer experts and survivors tackled problems traditionally plaguing Black men who question the trustworthiness of medical ...

The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute ’s 11th Annual Pink Out the Park event with the Detroit Tigers and McLaren Health Care, the official health care system of the Tigers, was a home run in Motor City. As the Tigers battled against the Seattle Mariners on Friday, May 12, 2023, hundreds of breast cancer survivors and their loved ones filled the stands at Comerica Park, decorated in pink to promote breast cancer awareness and support. “It is gratifying to see so much support from the community of sur...

The 2023 list of Crain’s Notable Leaders in Behavioral Health contains two members of Karmanos’ Supportive Oncology Multidisciplinary Team (MDT): Felicity W.K. Harper, Ph.D., and Mary Morreale, M.D. The publication announced the list on Monday, May 22. Dr. Harper is a clinical psychologist, professor of oncology at Wayne State University (WSU) School of Medicine, and associate center director of Population Sciences at Karmanos. She has dedicated her leadership, research and clinical practice to improvin...

Though many people enjoy having sun-kissed skin, we should be careful. More Americans are diagnosed with skin cancer than any other cancer – in fact, millions are each year! There are three main types of skin cancers: basal, squamous and melanoma. Basal and squamous cell skin cancers are the most common types diagnosed among Americans. Around 8 out of 10 skin cancer cases start in the basal cell, and 2 out of 10 are squamous cell carcinomas. Both cells are found in the top layer of the skin, known as th...

During a regular Girl Scout meeting in March 2023, Monica Papasian was the guest speaker that evening. She asked the troop to think of words they consider scary. Her 8-year-old daughter Olive and her fellow scouts were participating with intent. After the girls chose their “scary” words, Papasian revealed her word: cancer. “My goal was to reassure the girls that they didn’t have to be fearful or afraid of the word cancer. I was a living, breathing example of that,” said Papasian. “When my mom told me th...

WXYZ Jim Scott, bladder and prostate cancer survivor and member of the Black Men’s Cancer Action Council through Karmanos’ Office of Cancer Health Equity and Community Engagement (OCHECE), along with Hayley Thompson, Ph.D., OCHECE faculty supervisor, associate center director for Community Outreach and Engagement at Karmanos, and professor of oncology at Wayne State University School of Medicine, talked to WXYZ’s Ameera David about a recent study that Dr. Thompson co-authored: “Association between major...

OncLive Jeffrey Zonder, M.D. , hematologist, medical oncologist, leader of the  Multiple Myeloma and Amyloidosis Multidisciplinary Team  (MDT) and member of the  Hematology Oncology MDT  at Karmanos, talks to OncLive TV about managing toxicities associated with bispecific antibodies in multiple myeloma patients. Watch here .

WILX Betsy Cowles, a breast cancer survivor who received treatment at Karmanos Cancer Institute at McLaren Greater Lansing , tells her story to WILX. Daniel Isaac, D.O., MS , Cowles’ medical oncologist and member of the Breast Cancer Multidisciplinary Team , nominated her to be honored by Karmanos and McLaren during the 11 th annual Pink Out the Park Night with the Detroit Tigers on May 12, 2023. Watch the story here .