Hospice After Kevorkian: Still Lessons to be Learned
Dr Jacob “Jack” Kevorkian died on June 3, 2011 of complications arising out of chronic kidney disease, hepatitis C and a blood clot, at William Beaumont...
Double Scans Exposed – Good News for All
The lead article in the New York Times this Saturday revealed that each year 75,000 patients nationally have apparently unnecessary double chest CT scans. Whi...
Cancer 101: What is a Metastasis?
Her father was perhaps the unluckiest patient ever. She told me that he had seven different cancers. He had lung cancer. Then he had lymph node cancer. He had...
Why I Hate Smoking – An Oncologist’s Rant
Not seen what I have seen. Not been where I have been. Not stood where I have stood. Not felt what I have felt. For 35 years, watched the grim harvest reaped by...
Two Blows Against Evil: Melanoma Therapy
In recent years there has been a drop in the rates of several cancers … lung cancer is slightly less, breast cancer has decreased because of less estrogen use...
Ripples in the Pond
This weekend it was exciting to see several local events raising money to fight cancer. The American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life was held over Saturday n...
Cancer 101: Genes and Tumors
In order to defeat the enemy, it is important to understand it. Cancer patients in this country this year will visit doctors, hospitals and emergency departme...
U.S. Grant ….the Final Battle
Shiloh, Vicksburg, Petersburg, Richmond were battles that forged a nation. When we remember President and General Ulysses S. Grant and his contribution to our h...
Know the Question
When you have a medical problem and are consulting a physician, is it more important to know the question or the answer? If you are having any kind of test, s...
Pancreatic Cancer…. We have Been Waiting Too Long
Pancreatic Cancer continues to consume lives. This disease, which will affect 43,140 in this country in 2011, continues to be extraordinarily difficult to detec...