Surviving Cancer
I’m not an alarmist nor do I subscribe to conspiracy theories. I’m not Chicken Little and I don’t believe the sky is falling. However, I am no longer keeping my head in the sand either. I am now paying close attention to the many warnings concerning cancer.
During the 50 plus years that I smoked, I often said to someone lighting a cigarette, “There are only two types of people who smoke; crazy people and stupid people”
Smokers may develop a fatalistic attitude and assume there is little they can do to improve their chances of survival after a diagnosis of lung cancer. That would be a mistake, say researchers writing today in the British Medical Journal.
The above is from
The Los Angeles Times
Tomorrow I am going topost my experience [...]
Pet Scan
Yesterday, as part of my cancer follow up, I had a PET Scan at the Sandwich, MA Health Center. Pet Scans are not too bad unless you are claustrophobic. Or, if you are like me and have very hard veins to find or access. A PET scan requires the technician to inject a chemical [...]
Cancer Research
When I was first diagnosed with Stage IV cancer and the shock, fear and depression lessened, I did a great deal of research about cancer. I wanted to know everything I could about the horrid disease called cancer. I began to do as much cancer research as I could.
I’m still doing research and there [...]
Cancer
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Imagine your child being cured of a life-threatening childhood cancer only to discover that long-term health problems may develop as a result of the very treatments that cured the cancer. Such is the case for the estimated 270,000 childhood cancer survivors living in the United States today. Every parent and loved one of a child [...]
I mentioned in a previous post, that one of the saddest and most heartbreaking scenes I have ever witnessed was walking down the hallway of the cancer treatment hospital where I had my initial chemotherapy treatments and surgeries. What I saw that broke my heart were the many children undergoing cancer [...]
On the “My Story” page I mentioned that I went to a “very well known” Cancer Treatment Center in Boston.
They almost killed me and then told me to go back to the cape for my treatment because I didn’t respond well to their chemotherapy. I mentioned (on the My Story) page, that although my primary [...]
After finally completing extensive chemotherapy treatment and enduring the many complications as a result of that treatment, I found that I was physically and mentally exhausted. I wasn’t too surprised at that. After all, I went through a lot in my battle with cancer. One of my hospital stays lasted 32 consecutive days during which [...]
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