My post of July 9, 2009, "Will Provenge or Any Treatment for Advanced Prostate Cancer Survive Health Reform?" has caused my mailbox to become full of a number of emails both damming my concern about health care reform and supporting the concern. The negative responses have ranged from calling me selfish to being a tool [...]
Being a cancer survivor often requires that we also need to find a way to be gracious and forgiving with family, friends and associates. When someone first learns we have cancer or even later on when we meet him or her they often don’t know what to say to us. Often, they will say something [...]
When the reactor at Russia's Chernobyl melted down about 20 years ago, we saw the potential horrors that our atomic age can cause. The radioactive gases released were all invisible, odorless, and undetectable to the human senses, but the fallout from this accident still took the lives of all those unfortunate enough been anywhere near [...]
Yesterday’s New York Times article about health care reform and the overly inflated cost of the American health care system should ring large and loud alarm bells in the prostate cancer community. This article, along with the recent increasing pressure to halt prostate cancer screening, should put a major scare into the community. Unfortunately, the [...]
Every time I feel any pain, especially when it is in my chest or lower back, the little birdie whispers to me that I have finally developed a bone met. What are just the normal aches and pains from getting older sometimes seem to magnify and turn on the worry switch. It isn’t dissimilar to [...]