Cancer 101: All Bleeding Stops
When black night turns red by gunshot and blade, when pressures drop and life starts to fade, doctors are solaced by words which can jade, ALL BLEEDING STOPS! ...
Tough Science – The Shuttle and Cancer
In the early morning hours, the massive power of 30 years spent, Atlantis floated to earth, and rolled to still. Decades of research, engineering and effort c...
Cancer Politics, July 2011
Cancer care is dependent on money and planning. In order to manufacture drugs, build hospitals, run medical schools and pay for treatment, thousands of men an...
Breast Cancer and Estrogen; the Evolving Story
Estrogen is critical for good health and is key to the physical development of women. Estrogen is created in the ovaries and fat cells and every woman makes e...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cancer Stage…what’s in a number?
Cancer doctors and patients live in a world of numbers. How big is the tumor? How many tumors are there? What is the blood count? How many treatments? N...