Remember back to when your children were young and you would sit at a table with them and help put together a puzzle. Depending upon the puzzle’s size and complexity, it could take hours of hard work; however, the time was well spent because you could bond on a common task with your children. When [...]
There is a lot of pressure on cancer survivors to participate in clinical trials. Without the brave individuals willing to participate in the trials research would grind to a halt along with new, improved treatments for all cancers. Even though an estimated 2.3 million people in the United States take part in clinical trials every [...]
I had my second chemo treatment last week (Thursday) and it went so much faster with the port-a-cath (see the December 1, 2008 post “Injection Site Issues and Technology” for an explanation of a port-a-cath). As most of us who are traveling this trail will know, our veins take a regular beating from all of [...]
What is left for us once we become resistant to docetaxel (DOC) plus prednisone, which is the last FDA approved, standard of care treatment available for advanced hormone refractory prostate cancer? There has been some studies that indicate after a “vacation period” similar to what many of us do with a first line hormone blockade, [...]
I am something of a Christmas music junkie. I listen all day at work?to this station and sometimes stream the online channels where you get even more variety (my favorite being the R&B channel). People come in and out of my office and comment on how they can't believe that?I can listen to holiday music [...]