I wrote about this a couple of weeks ago when it became clear the American Cancer Society was mulling over whether screening recommendations should be changed for breast and prostate cancers.
The concern, of course is, are some indolent, non-aggressive cancers suspected or discovered and patients are harmed with invasive tests and/or unnecessary or premature treatment [...]

More and more people are telling me their own Powerful Patient stories. I love it!
I heard this one at lunch today in Las Vegas as I reconnected in-person with CLL friend Dave Garcia, 50, a veteran pit boss at the famous Bellagio casino.
Dave and I met via the Internet seven years ago after he was [...]

I have never had a mammogram. No doctor would recommend one for me, a 59-year-old male. But they would for any woman over 40. Yet many women don’t have them, or forget to keep having them yearly. So our partner, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, is spearheading a novel campaign in the Pacific Northwest to [...]

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If the worst happened and your child was diagnosed with cancer you would probably want aggressive therapy for the child with hope for a cure, let alone to save your child’s life. In diseases like childhood leukemia these days, the vast majority of the time, aggressive therapy works.
But when it comes to chronic conditions many [...]

A new discovery from a joint venture of M.I.T. and Harvard has devised a test to see if experimental chemicals can kill cancer stem cells – the “mother,” if you will of millions of other cancer cells that mature and spread. Their theory is that, in many solid tumor types, unless you kill the cancer [...]

As you may know, I am a 13-year leukemia survivor and delighted to take no medication and live a full life every day. Because of the many interviews I do with experts it has hit home that I am at higher risk for other cancers, very late effects of the powerful medicines I took in [...]

Okay, I know this headline has double meaning when we are talking about ulcerative colitis where inflammation plagues the colon. In this case I am not talking about medical exams, I am talking about the stories of two women, each plagued by real problems from colitis for years, who are now doing great. It’s not [...]

40-year-old Rhonda Craig of Lake Stevens, Washington is a no-baloney-type woman. Good thing. She has a tough job as a Washington State Trooper. She can find herself speeding along on a remote highway at night to pull over someone who is usually law abiding and compliant or someone who could be a deadly threat.
Rhonda, a [...]