Quarantine the healthy
The flu shot only works 60-70% of the time and even less in people with impaired immunity. ...
Comments on Living: A book review
This highly readable work is an important addition to personal memoir and the cancer fight....
Your doctor and hospice
She came to say goodbye, because I had referred her to hospice....
No cancer? Give chemo.
Giving chemotherapy to a patient with no cancer, how can you tell if it works? ...
100% Inconclusive
If the physician has really “laid down the law”, helping can become impossible. ...
Advances in Cancer 2012
ASCO's Report on Progress Against Cancer...
Sophie’s Party Hat
I don't think she understands...
Radiation: power to cure
Radiation therapy is an astonishingly precise tool with millimeter accuracy, based on advanced physics, experimentation and, above all, power....
Saving after Sandy
When the saga of the storm is written, there will be a long list of remarkable people who instead of running away, ran forward to help. ...
The aggressive chemo fallacy
We are in a war, a war on cancer. We talk of battle and attack, magic bullets, proton beam rays, laser surgery and targeted drugs, doctors as combat commanders,...
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