For Humphry Leue, the Cancer Screening Project he helped launch last week is meaningful on a very personal level. “I myself was diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer about two years …
February 14, 2025
January 24, 2024
Virgin Islands heads regional drive against cervical cancer
Every year, cervical cancer kills more than 35,000 women in the Americas, and 80 percent of them are in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the Pan American Health …
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June 30, 2023
Cancer survivor competes at Mrs. Globe
As a cervical cancer survivor, Dr. Arliene Penn was struck by statistics provided by the World Health Organization: Each year, about 600,000 women are diagnosed with the disease, and some …
November 25, 2022
Virgin Islands women offered free pap smears
Arliene Penn credits a pap smear screening in 2001 with saving her life by detecting her cervical cancer before it progressed to an advanced stage. Now she is using her …
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