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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- The University of Virginia Cancer Center has joined a national effort to increase racial and ethnic diversity in cancer treatment clinical trials. According to a release, the American Society of Clinical Oncology and the Association of Community Cancer Centers are leading the initiative.

While it's rare to have cervical cancer when you're pregnant, it can happen in some people. Research shows that cervical cancer is the most commonly diagnosed gynecological cancer during pregnancy.1 Between 1% and 3% of patients with cervical cancer are pregnant or postpartum at the time of diagnosis.

BRANDON, Fla. — Lavita Rodriguez is a ray of sunshine. She's bound to put a smile on your face within just minutes of meeting her. But inside, she's fighting a battle. We'll start back in 2008. At the age of 23, she was paralyzed from a car crash.

NEW HAVEN — A drug that has been used only in late-stage breast cancer has been approved for patients in earlier stages, improving their chances of survival, according to a Yale Cancer Center oncologist.

AU TRAIN, Mich. (WJMN) – Three years ago, Local 3’s Rebecca Bartelme had the privilege of checking out a site in Au Train that was going to be the home of a retreat center for young adult cancer survivors. A year after that, she caught up with True North Treks at the WALDEN Institute when they became fully operational. Just recently, she stopped by to see how the effort has been going since taking off in the Upper Peninsula.

CANMORE, ALTA. -- An experimental cancer drug made from a molecule found in a Himalayan fungus known as “caterpillar fungus” has shown early promise as a new treatment for patients with advanced tumours in a small clinical trial.

Dixie was just treated for cancer that her owners were initially told would be life-changing, if not life-ending for the dog.

Dr. Seema Doshi was shocked and terrified when she found a lump in her breast that was eventually confirmed to be cancerous. “That rocked my world,” said Doshi, a dermatologist in private practice in the Boston suburb of Franklin who was 46 at the time of her diagnosis. “I thought, ‘That’s it. I will have to do chemotherapy.’ ”

This projection is according to “The Clinicopathological Profile of Cancers in India: A Report of the Hospital Based Cancer Registries, 2021” prepared by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and National Centre for Disease Informatics & Research (NCDIR), Bengaluru. The figures were released on Friday, World Cancer Research Day.