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“Patient Harm—Including One Death—Cited As Faculty Challenges MD Anderson Leadership.” By Paul Goldberg, The Cancer Letter. More than half of MD Anderson clinical faculty said the administration’s demands to increase the workload have eroded patient safety at the institution. Preparing for a meeting with the UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, the MD Anderson Faculty Senate . . . → Read More: Patient Harm—Including One Death—Cited As Faculty Challenges MD Anderson Leadership 
Someone asked me recently what one word I would choose to describe my cancer experience. The word I chose then and would choose today as well is transforming. That’s what cancer does. It transforms. Anyone who has ever had the misfortune to hear the dreaded words you have cancer, perhaps has a different word of . . . → Read More: Cancer is Transforming 
I know this guy. It was thirteen years ago when he first set some words and gunpowder next to metal casings with the intent of being a truth-teller, a dangerous artist, a maker of things that do harm where harm needs doing. If you had asked him back then, he wouldn’t have been able to . . . → Read More: No Apology for Happiness 
“George Johnson’s ‘Cancer Chronicles.’” By David Quammen, The New York Times. Cancer would seem a dreary, frightful topic if it weren’t also such a universal one. In this era of longer human life spans, it’s almost as inevitable as death and taxes. Most of us will experience some form of cancer — if not in . . . → Read More: Lives of the Cells: George Johnson’s ‘Cancer Chronicles’
“Interview with Jen Smith of LivingLegendary.org.” By Lisa Bonchek Adams, LisaAdams.com. Jen Smith was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 30. Three months after her treatment ended the cancer returned, and it had spread to other parts of her body. By age 31, Jen Smith was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer, a terminal disease . . . → Read More: Interview with Jen Smith of LivingLegendary.org
“Breaking down the “20 mind-blowing medical breakthroughs” hyped by Readers Digest.” By Harold Demonaco, Health News Review. The use of “cures…mind blowing…breakthroughs” as descriptors should set off alarms in readers. While there is a nubbin of truth in each of these stories, the real truth that readers/consumers need is stretched a bit in most. Rather . . . → Read More: Breaking down the “20 mind-blowing medical breakthroughs” hyped by Readers Digest 
The use of prophylactic mastectomy in the U.S. among patients with invasive breast cancer in only one breast has increased dramatically in the past two decades. Although removal of the noncancerous breast has been shown to reduce the risk for developing cancer in that breast, there is conflicting evidence on whether or not the practice . . . → Read More: Research Brief, Addressing Peace of Mind in Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy for Breast Cancer 
Six years ago today Jennifer and I were married in Central Park. I am celebrating our sixth wedding anniversary by releasing our story, The Battle We Didn’t Choose — My Wife’s Fight With Breast Cancer, in digital book format. The book will be available through my website as a PDF download. http://www.mywifesfightwithbreastcancer.com/ Aside . . . → Read More: The Battle We Didn’t Choose 
“What patients see through the glass is not a world outside cancer, but a world taken over by it—cancer reflected endlessly around them like a hall of mirrors.” –Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies [1] According to the National Cancer Institute Office of Cancer Survivorship, a person is considered a cancer . . . → Read More: “What Cancer Survivorship Means”
“More Money Won’t Win the War on Cancer.” By Jacoba Urist, The Atlantic. A broken grant structure, turf wars, and an exodus of scientists for other professions are bigger barriers to progress than a lack of funding. Forty-two years after President Nixon signed the National Cancer Act and declared the “war on cancer,” it’s virtually . . . → Read More: More Money Won’t Win the War on Cancer |
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