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Only In “Cancer World”. . .

Unfortunately, when you're joking about cancer (warning: it's not for everybody), the flavor is often "noir".  On the front page of today's NY Times is a story about the cancer drug Avastin.  It tells of a 58-year-old woman who went to the doctor for a routine check-up.  Unfortunately, he found a lump under her arm which [...]

By |2020-02-04T10:16:47-05:00July 6th, 2008|Arts/Humor/Quotations|0 Comments

When Cancer Isn’t Really “Cancer”

The problem of overtreatment of prostate cancer is well-known.  Many invasive, aggressive treatments are performed on men whose cancer would never pose a threat to their lives anyway.  And they are often left with nasty side effects, physical and emotional.  So a well-known PC pathologist, Dr. Jonathan Oppenheimer, proposes a solution:  Let's call the low-grade tumors [...]

By |2020-02-04T12:15:43-05:00July 1st, 2008|Healthcare and Ethics, Op-Ed/Inside Scoop|0 Comments

Mom and kids work to raise awareness for prostate cancer

Everyone can do something to raise awareness of prostate cancer. When Michael Vinecki, announced to his family that he had sarcomatoid carcinoma, an especially aggressive form of prostate cancer his family decided that they wanted to do something to help find a cure and also to raise awareness. To raise their inspiring story click here. [...]

By |2020-02-04T12:10:54-05:00July 1st, 2008|Activism|1 Comment

The Lowdown on Diet and Prostate Cancer

Maybe you are newly diagnosed and want to know what part if any diet may play in your recovery.  What do other people do?  I have to stress that there are no absolutes here.  As far as I know, no nutritional remedy for prostate cancer has ever been shown to be effective using the most [...]

By |2020-02-04T10:40:47-05:00June 30th, 2008|Healing the Mind|1 Comment

Two For the Price of One

I just read an article about a man who recently fathered a set of twins -- a boy and a girl.  What's different about this story is that the man was diagnosed with prostate cancer at age 43 and had had a prostatectomy.  As a result, his body was no longer producing sperm.  But through modern technology, specifically [...]

By |2017-10-19T10:57:32-04:00June 29th, 2008|People, Families and Grieving|0 Comments

The Voices of Prostate Cancer

Listen to real people talk about what it's like to have prostate cancer on the NY Times blog: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/26/voices-of-prostate-cancer/ I have not had a chance to listen to this, but I'm sure it's worthwhile.  There are interviews with a diverse group of men who've had PC. I commend the NT Times for its prominent coverage [...]

The Language Of Cancer

I just saw that Dana Jennings, who writes a blog about his prostate cancer for the NYT, is discussing language and cancer.  So I recycled this essay I wrote some time back. It amazes me that doctors still use the word biochemical failure to refer to a recurrence of prostate cancer.  A doctor told me, [...]

By |2017-10-19T10:57:36-04:00June 11th, 2008|Op-Ed/Inside Scoop|2 Comments
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