chemotherapy

A suburban woman began intravenous chemotherapy to fight a rare form of leukemia just an hour after giving birth, NBC 5’s Lauren Petty reports.

Holding her eight month old daughter Harlow in her arms, Ashley Conley says her baby girl is the reason she’s still alive.

Actress and activist Jane Fonda revealed Friday that she has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. “This is a very treatable cancer… so I feel very lucky.”

The two-time Oscar winner says she’s started chemotherapy, but won’t let that treatment slow her activism.

Doctors are reporting a new gain in breast cancer treatment. Some HER2 negative breast cancers are actually “HER2 low” and can benefit from a drug targeting the HER2 protein.