Torney was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, an incurable blood cancer with recurring tumors that eat away at bone marrow, damaging bones and the immune system.
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Vanessa Etienne,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
For example, treating slow-growing tumors with surgery, radiation or chemotherapy could create significant side effects without a survival benefit.
Some of the biggest improvements have happened in the more fatal cancers that are rising in women, like liver cancer, lung cancer, and melanoma, Arif Kamal, MD, MBA, chief patient officer at ACS, tells SELF.
—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
13 Jan. 2026
People who have or have had reproductive cancers, such as breast cancer or ovarian cancer, and those who have a history of blood clots should not take them, Santoro says.
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