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Every Zebra’s Stripes Are Different: Victory Over A Rare Type Of Cancer

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For Charleston resident and cancer survivor Roger Jones, his journey to beat a rare form of the disease ultimately led him to embark on several overseas trips to Germany to receive a novel treatment not yet approved in the United States. Jones was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer in 2005. It started in his small intestine … Read more

Lucas Doll’s Long Journey From A Grim Diagnosis to Recovery

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In 2018, 5-year-old Lucas Doll began struggling with sleep disturbances and sudden onsets of vomiting that defied explanation. For a year-and-a-half, Lucas, along with his mother, Lina, visited numerous specialists, but none could provide a diagnosis. During this period of uncertainty, Lucas participated in a sleep study. It was here that a vigilant radiologist noticed … Read more

Defying The Odds: Teen Survives Severe Brain Infection

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Brock Borton was just a regular 16-year-old kid at the beginning of February 2023. The Hanahan High School junior lived and breathed baseball and was a healthy, active student. One morning that month, Borton woke up before school feeling terrible, and felt even worse over the course of a week. It was when his left … Read more

When Hoofbeats Aren’t Horses: Finding the Medical Zebra, The Anne Toole Story

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“When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras.” This popular advice, circa the 1940s, was intended to encourage doctors to diagnose common causes, rather than spending limited time and resources chasing down the possibility of rare diseases, according to the National Library of Medicine. But zebras are not mythical creatures, and sometimes those hoofbeats … Read more

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