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“Scanxiety”

May 27, 2008 - 6:43 pm

Recently one of our readers wrote about her “scanxiety”, the anxiety and fear she feel whenever it is time to have another scan that has the potential to show growth or progression of her disease process. There is not a cancer patient I know of who has not suffered this kind of […]

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Thoughts on “The Last Lecture”

May 12, 2008 - 4:26 pm

  There’s a book that’s making the circuit in the world in general, but it’s probably especially relevant here.   The Last Lecture, by Dr. Randy Pausch with very helpful editing by Wall Street Journal writer Jeffrey Zaslow, is a book based on the lecture last September by Dr. Pausch, a computer scientist and virtual reality […]

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Survey on Experience of Living with Lung Cancer

May 2, 2008 - 3:41 pm

Among the many problems with lung cancer that everyone in the lung cancer community experiences is that the field does not receive the attention and the resources it deserves.  And one of the leading reasons for this is the perception that there is less reason to support research to prevent or combat a disease that […]

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