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A family history of cancer is an important cancer risk factor and may be associated with an increased chance to develop one or more types of cancer. People with a higher risk for cancer may benefit from earlier cancer screening or treatment. Those with a strong family history of cancer may have a specific hereditary cancer syndrome.
Nothing was going to stop Dana Deaton from marrying her college sweetheart. Not distance, not cancer and not time. Thirty-five years after ending the relationship she calls the "love of her life" Dana Deaton found him again, and she wasn''t letting go.
As part of the Bristol-Myers Squibb Tour of Hope, cancer survivor and Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong will make an exclusive appearance in St. Louis at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine Oct. 15 to promote cancer research.