The Legacy of the Tarceva Diva
By Brian Loew About three years ago, a new member of our Lung Cancer Survivors Support Community posted a message: she was taking Tarceva and wanted to discuss with fellow members everything about that...
View ArticleWhose Cancer Is It, Anyway?
By “Knot Telling” I recently read a blog by Dr. Danielle Ofri in the New York Times “Well” blog about how as a physician she learned to respect the patient’s wishes even when they contradict her...
View ArticleTraditional Chinese Herbalism at the Cleveland Clinic? What Happened to...
By David Gorski, MD I don’t recall if I’ve ever mentioned my connection with the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF). I probably have, but just don’t remember it. Long-time readers might recall that I...
View ArticleThe Gift of Cancer
By Brett Hendel-Paterson, MD After my last post about “the gift of cancer” I must say that CLL has felt much less like a gift this month. Joining the ranks of those with “a diagnosis” has given me a...
View ArticleDad, You Have to Inhale
By James Salwitz, MD My wife calls them “hand-me-ups”… things we inherit from our kids. My ex-fashionable shirt that my son wore in college.Our semi-vegetarian diet my daughter adopted in high...
View ArticleCheeseburger Please, and Make It a Double
By Vik Khanna Consider that for the last year or so, we have been treated a deluge of entreaties to reduce our salt intake, with the American Heart Association going so far as to claim that daily...
View ArticleBecause Cancer.
By “Knot Telling” Do not tell me how to feel! For those who may not read through to the end, here is the take home: you do not get to tell me how to feel or what my attitude should be, no matter who...
View ArticleWhat Twitter Tells Us about the War on Cancer
By Brian Reid The American Society of Clinical Oncology recently made public nearly all of the abstracts — more than 5,000 pieces of research — that were selected for the ASCO annual meeting, which...
View ArticleJessie Gruman: Tribute to a Tightrope Walker
By Michael Millenson When I heard that Jessie Gruman had died, that her powerful voice on behalf of patients had been stilled and gone silent years too soon, I thought of Phillipe Petite, the...
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Killing Cancer
By JOHN IRVINE As you might expect from a blog, we’re big fans of HBO’s VICE, the cable giant’s slickly-produced answer to staid network news magazine shows like Sixty Minutes. Over it’s first two...
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Making Cancer Care Great Again
By MICHAEL MILLENSON Q: Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency included a promise to repeal “Obamacare” in its entirety. If he succeeds in fulfilling that promise, what impact can we expect on...
View ArticleHealth Reform Must End the Harms of Prior Authorizations
By CRAIG BLINDERMAN, MD As the White House continues to push for a revised Republican proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), one thing is for certain, many of the sickest Americans will...
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I’m 35 Years Old And I’m Realizing My Life May Be About to End. And I’m...
By SCOTT RIDDLE It’s been a while since I put a piece of writing in the public domain, but suddenly I have a lot to get off my chest, well my colon actually. Just three weeks ago life was good....
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My 14 Year Old Cancer Patient May Be Addicted to Opioids. What Do I Do?
By JULIE KIM, MD I’m a pediatric oncologist, but cancer is not always the most serious problem my young patients face. Currently one of them, a 14-year-old boy, his mother, or both may be opioid...
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New Evidence in JAMA Shows Insurance Gaps Leave Some Cancer Patients Without...
BY BAILEY FITZGERALD “How long do I have?” The man was just diagnosed with lung cancer. “That depends,” his doctor says. “What insurance do you have?” New research suggests that conversations like...
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Will Cancer Drugs Ever Be As Affordable As Retrovirals in Low and Middle...
By ASHLEY ANDREOU In 2014, the majority of international health aid was dedicated to HIV. So, one might reasonably assume that this is the largest health problem facing the world. Yet, HIV only...
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A Rosa Parks Moment is Coming in Phase 1 Cancer Trials
By DAVID C. NORRIS, MD David Norris, MD I want to tell you about the most exciting discovery I’ve made in 2+ years of research on dose individualization methods for phase 1 cancer trials. This...
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Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali
By BISHAL GYAWALI MD Me-too deja vu I read the report of a phase 3 RCT of a “new” breast cancer drug but I had the feeling that I had already read this before. Later I realized that this was indeed a...
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Jessie Gruman: Tribute to a Tightrope Walker
By Michael Millenson When I heard that Jessie Gruman had died, that her powerful voice on behalf of patients had been stilled and gone silent years too soon, I thought of Phillipe Petite, the...
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Killing Cancer
By JOHN IRVINE As you might expect from a blog, we’re big fans of HBO’s VICE, the cable giant’s slickly-produced answer to staid network news magazine shows like Sixty Minutes. Over it’s first two...
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