ALPENA — When you’re in your early 20s starting your career, the last thing on your mind is that a life-threatening disease could stop you in your tracks. But that’s what happened to Lucas Moquin, now 28. In 2015, he was diagnosed with melanoma, skin cancer, which then metastasized to ...

ALPENA — Danni Franzoni’s life is a constant balancing act as she does her best to manage her life and family in Alpena while traveling back and forth to Royal Oak to provide support for her mother, who has stage IV lung cancer that has moved into her brain. Franzoni, a single mother who ...

ALPENA — In 2002, LuAnne Benac noticed she had a hard time catching her breath. For the next 10 years, the Alpena resident ping-ponged from one specialist to another, desperate for a correct diagnosis as her body systems failed and her life became a list of symptoms, from severe dizziness to ...

A breast cancer diagnosis can change patients’ lives in ways they never imagined. That’s especially so in the rare instances when women under 40 are diagnosed with the disease. According to the American Cancer Society, it’s uncommon for women under 40 to receive a breast cancer ...

Breast cancer treatments are highly effective, which is one reason why the National Cancer Institute can report that the five-year survival rate for non-metastatic breast cancer is 90 percent. However, in certain situations, doctors may feel that the existing standard for breast cancer ...

Doctors will discuss a host of treatment options upon diagnosing a patient with breast cancer. The course of treatment is ultimately determined by various factors, including the stage of the disease at the time of diagnosis. Doctors and patients now have more treatment options than ever ...