Considering Spiral CT Scans to Detect Lung Cancer
This seems almost a perfunctory post, following last week’s front-page news about computerized tomography (CT) scans to detect lung cancer in smokers. An NIH-funded randomized trial, reported early in...
View ArticleACS Issues Annual Report on Cancer Stats: Some Key Findings, and Notes on...
ACS (annual report header) This week the ACS released its annual report on Cancer Facts and Figures in the U.S. The journal Cancer analyzes and considers the data in a helpful article. Some of the key...
View ArticleBreast Cancer Stats: Notes from the 2012 ACS Report, and a Key Question
Earlier this month, the ACS released its annual report on Cancer Facts and Figures. The document, based largely on analyses of SEER data from the NCI, supports that approximately 229,000 adults in the...
View ArticleThank You, Rachel and Susan
Yesterday morning, two women who were active in the on-line breast cancer community died. Rachel Cheetham Moro (1970 – 2012) was a critical thinker who vigorously supported BCAction and the NBCC’s 2020...
View ArticleSad News, from the Metastatic Breast Cancer Network
Dear Readers, I was saddened today to learn of the death of Suzanne Herbert. Last October, I met Suzanne at a conference. She seemed familiar; that was because I’d read about her life with metastatic...
View ArticleLiving Like It’s Shark Week, Take 3
It’s Shark Week, or at least that’s the situation over at Discovery Channel. The annual, virtual immersion into the world of cartilaginous fish has been adopted by your author as some sort of metaphor,...
View ArticleOld and New Music, on Dying to Give Birth
Recently I saw Inside Llewyn Davis, the new Coen brothers’ film about a folksinger in Greenwich Village. The moving, fictional story takes place in the early 1960s. The protagonist, handsomely...
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