I was going to share with you an opinion piece in which several doctors from the Mayo Clinic comment on a study by Dr. Hu of Harvard, which compared outcomes for laparascopic (which includes robotic) and traditional open surgery for prostate cancer. I had some resistance to posting this information because I know it's not what people want [...]
You may have heard that Hamilton Jordan, chief-of-staff to Jimmy Carter, died yesterday of cancer at the age of 63. You may not have known that Jordan battled four cancers, including lymphoma, prostate, skin cancer and mesothelioma. In spite of all this, Jordan wrote a book called "No Such Thing As A Bad Day" speaking about himself. Jordan [...]
I always advise newly diagnosed men to get a second opinion on their biopsies from a very experienced person. That's because Gleason scores are notoriously inaccurate. For example, dear husband's biopsy slides were interpeted by three different pathologists and he was assigned three different Gleason scores. (First biopsy ordered by urologist, second done by hospital pathologist [...]
[For an introduction to this article, please read the previous posting.] Sandwich Generation caregivers Minnesota Public Radio, April 17, 2008 by Nanci Olesen "I can hold her hand and you can feel that there's something much deeper than words can ever express, so that's how we communicate. But she's slipping away." Mary Louise Clary is [...]
An article in yesterday's "Science Times" caught my eye: A Conversation with Daniel Gilbert: The Smiling Professor, by Claudia Dreifus (Published: April 22, 2008.) A scholar who studies "the nature of happiness" at Harvard, Daniel Gilbert, found out and reported what I already knew: That most of us humans are unbreakable. Basically, we can adapt to anything. If [...]