Andrew blogs from the 2nd day of the American Society of Hematology’s 52nd Annual Meeting. [...]
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The news wasn’t good this week for women concerned about breast cancer. First came the story that some women were diagnosed with breast cancer, very early stage, had treatment – including disfiguring surgery – and then found out they never had cancer in the first place. The pathologist goofed, maybe even a second pathologist also [...]
The Issues From ASCO from Patient Power® on Vimeo. It started on the flight from Seattle to Santa Barbara, California the other morning. The woman sitting next to me shared that she was flying down to visit her ailing 88-year-old father who was being admitted to hospice. Up until recently, she explained, he was a very vibrant senior – a former IRS accounting expert [...] The phone rang this morning on our new Patient Power Hotline (877-232-5445). On the line was a worried woman from Lawton, Oklahoma. She’d been diagnosed with malignant melanoma that had spread to her lymph nodes. She was waiting for more test results to learn how far the spread had gone. She had listened to our [...] There’s more chatter lately (see the Seattle Times, The Newest Generation of Drugs: Who Can Afford Them?) about the cost of the growing list of biotech drugs “(“biologics”) that can lengthen your life and/or improve the quality of your life when you are living with an advanced cancer or a long-term chronic illness like multiple [...] Aboard the MS Zuiderdam in the Greek Islands – Our cruise with family and friends continues as does the battle to have the teenagers wear enough sunscreen and get to bed before 2:00 a.m. As we travel there is some news to note about the death of a celebrity in the news and the fight [...] Usually when you or your partner is pregnant, it is a joyous event. We have three kids, and I can remember when my wife, Esther, announced that she was pregnant with our first child. It was an announcement at a family dinner at the future grandma’s house and I had the video camera rolling. The [...] I have been meeting some people lately who should have been dead a long time ago. These are cancer patients who were told to put their affairs in order, that there was nothing that could be done. For Suzanne Lindley in Canton, Texas, it was seven years ago at age 31 when her advanced colon [...] I recently spent a lot of time talking with people who are on a mission to prevent colon cancer, which is our second biggest cancer killer, after lung cancer. Colon cancer is preventable if it’s caught early. In my mother’s case, it wasn’t, so I think about colon cancer a lot. This past Sunday, during [...] |
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