In a previous post, I pointed out that being diagnosed with cancer often causes anxiety. I know it did for me. I recently came across a video I thought was worth posting it to this blog. I hope you enjoy…
In a previous post, I pointed out that being diagnosed with cancer often causes anxiety. I know it did for me. I recently came across a video I thought was worth posting it to this blog. I hope you enjoy…
Official Cancer Survivor Yesterday I had an appointment with my oncologist to review my recent PET Scan, chest ex-ray and blood work. He congratulated me by saying, “you are now an “official” Cancer Survivor“. I was diagnosed in 2005 and…
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.…
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…
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. …
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…
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…