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An Insider’s Look at the FDA

If you’ve read my blogs for a while, or look up some past blogs, you’ll see I have been frustrated at times with the FDA. Yes, they have a tough job protecting us from medical products that are unsafe and/or ineffective. But when it comes to cancer, where we have few “homerun” therapies, I wish [...]

Personalized Medicine: Your 2011 Resolution

You are an individual right? To your mom and dad you are/were like no other. Hopefully your family and friends continue to see you as one-of-a-kind. Had you considered your doctor should see you that way too? Not as yet another one with diabetes, or heart disease, or cancer, but as a singular human being [...]

My Cancer Good Fortune

I made the trek today, in the gloomy and changeable Seattle Spring weather, to my six month cancer checkup. The routine is this: blood draw about 30 minutes before seeing my community oncologist and friend Dr. Andrew Jacobs. While I dread the day we have bad results to talk about, hoping that will never come, [...]