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The human body never stops. Our cells and organs are working all the time, in ways we don’t think about – until something goes wrong. Charles reached out to Private Health when his esophageal cancer spread to his lungs. Learn how combining a cancer vaccine with immunotherapy and molecular targeting has stabilized his condition.

The risk of blood clots is associated with many activities and health conditions, including smoking, long airline flights, birth control pills, diabetes, and cancer. It’s especially important to determine whether cancer patients have any additional conditions that further increase their likelihood of developing a blood clot. In this case study, when our cancer patient Bob developed symptoms consistent with a blood clot, we acted immediately.

A cancer diagnosis is scary. And when the cancer has spread to other places in the body, it is often considered incurable – even scarier. However, due to progress in cancer research over the last couple of decades, even cancers that have spread can go into remission or be managed more like a chronic disease. In these scenarios, it is incredibly important to use every tool in our cancer toolbox to monitor for disease progression or recurrence.

This is the story of a client who came back from the brink of death in his battle with COVID-19. Forty-one-year-old Joseph had no history of health problems when he, his wife, Elaine, and their daughter came down with COVID-19 last December. While his wife and daughter recovered quickly, Joseph was not so lucky.