Immortal So soon my body will have gone Beyond the sound and sight of men, And tho' it wakes and suffers now, Its sleep will be unbroken then; But oh, my frail immortal soul That will not sleep forevermore, A leaf borne onward by the blast, A wave that never finds the shore. Sara [...]
My Google prostate cancer news pipeline is fit to burst. What everybody is so excited about is the discovery of several new genetic variations which appear to be associated with a diagnosis of PC. I had heard that seven new abnormal gene sequences or "SNP"s, had been found . . . but now it may be up to ten. (These follow on [...]
This post was inspired by current events -- namely, Super Tuesday. When I came home today there were two recorded messages on my machine from a man who said he had been a prisoner of war alongside John McCain. Of course, he said very complimentary things. Usually, I don't want to listen to that stuff, but [...]
I have been following a discussion that's been taking place on one of the prostate cancer listservs. The title of the thread is: "No Big Deal." It is a compendium of statements that have been made to people here in response to the admission that they or their partners have prostate cancer. More often than not, these words have [...]
Stephen Jay Gould, the well-known scientist who suffered from a rare form of cancer wrote this: I asked Sir Peter Medawar, my personal scientific guru and a Nobelist in immunology, what the best prescription for success against cancer might be. 'A sanguine personality,' he replied. Will save ya a trip to the dictionary. This is [...]