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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
I often joke and say, “I’m the only person in the world who had a colostomy as a result of head and neck cancer.” That’s usually associated with colon cancer. Maybe I’m not. I have a friend who went to the same cancer treatment center that I ...
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
On the "MY Story" page of the web site, YourCancerInfo.com, I referred to the hospital where I first went for treatment as "a very well known Cancer Treatment Center and hospital in Boston". After they almost killed me, they washed their hands of me. "You don't respond well ...
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Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Prior to getting cancer, I never read food labels. If it looked or sounded good, I bought it. Now a days I pay attention to my diet and other health issues. Here are some tips I learned about reading food labels.
You cannot measure every morsel that ...
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
I write a lot about my lack of faith and distrust of both the pharmaceutical industry and of the FDA. I still have a port-a-cath, that was implanted during my chemotherapy. I have to have it flushed every four to six weeks. To do this the nurses ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Tonight my local TV news reported that Patrick Swayze, the star of Dirty Dancing, who has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, was expected to die from the disease within weeks. Fortunately, later national news reports are much more optimistic.
Swayze has pancreatic cancer which has the highest fatality rate of ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
I am a survivor of head and neck cancer. I never thought
much about skin cancer. I was aware of the fact that too much
exposure to the sun could cause skin cancer.
I have always known, to some extent, that our skin tells a
lot about our health. When my ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
As you may know I recently survived Stage 4 cancer. I had serious, and ongoing complications from my chemotherapy treatments, my surgeries, and my radiation treatments. My initial chemotherapy treatment resulted in surgery and 32 consecutive days in the hospital. I was discharged to a Rehabilitation ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Yesterday there was a tragic and disturbing death aboard an American Airlines
flight. The passenger, a 44 year old female was returning home to New York from
Haiti. She became ill and was having difficulty breathing.
The passenger, Ms. Desir, complained of illness and extreme thirst after she had
eaten a meal. A ...
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Sunday, February 24th, 2008
Yesterday I posted my thoughts about the pharmaceutical companies using a “profit vs. legal expense” model instead of a “benefit vs. product risk” model. I disagreed with the pharmaceutical companies’ explanation that the high cost of their products was to pay for medical research. I said the high ...
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Prescription medicine is expensive. The large pharmaceutical companies justify this by claiming their high prices pays for research. Is that really where most of the money we spend on drugs goes? Is it to fund research? I don’t think so.
A big portion of the price we ...
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