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Cancer 101: MicroRNA and Cancer
Cancer is the disease of uncontrolled growth. Growth switches that should be off are turned on. Regulating genes in our cells malfunction, and malignant cell di...
Cancer, mass, tumor…what’s in a name?
Today, a patient said to me, “Doc, I understand I have cancer, but when you start talking about tumors I really get scared.” Now, I certainly did not in...
Cancer 101: PET Scans
Let us play doctor. Believe for a moment that you are sitting in your office advising a patient. On the patient’s chest X-ray is a half-inch spot. T...
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! ...
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...
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...