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TV Anchorwoman Fights Brain Tumor

Kathi Goertzen is a big name in Seattle. She’s one of the most prominent anchors on television in my hometown. She is a lovely woman. Also, for the past ten years, she has been a brain tumor patient. There have been highs and lows. Now she is moving into the world of experimental therapy and [...]

Stopping colon cancer in its tracks

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 [...]

Immunotherapy gets personal

Thousands of people with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), both B-cell malignancies, are members of HealthTalk. Even though “cancer” isn’t in the name of our disease, we know we are cancer patients and survivors, even when some people we meet are clueless about exactly what we’ve got. Over time, we’ve been learning that [...]