What I Really Do: Treating Beyond the Evidence

Most of what I write about here highlights the evidence supporting treatments, and that’s certainly how we strive to practice oncology. But the reality is that patients and doctors often find themselves in the middle of settings where we don’t have any answers and need to rely on judgment, or we think we can potentially […]

Bigger Avatars, Better Avatars?

  I had requested that the tech guys do something to make the avatars a better feature.  Since you pretty much need a head shot to get any recognizable features when it’s about 3/4 inch x 3/4 inch (and a full body shot basically means that all humans look close to the same — egalitarian, […]

Tributes Now Available on GRACE

   As I mentioned in my last post, another feature that we’ve added to the site is the ability to add tributes, to commemorate a person or an event.  These tributes are available in three sizes and range in cost from only $35 for a smaller one with text and no photo to a $60 […]

Sponsoring Posts on GRACE

In an effort to both raise funds and help personalize the process of donor support, we’re adding a few new features. The first is the opportunity to show your support of GRACE efforts by sponsoring specific posts for a period of time, from 6 months ($60) to permanently ($250) per post. […]

New Features on Post Headers: How About Some Feedback?

The headers on the posts look a little different lately.

In addition to adding text links to the small icons for a printable version of the post and e-mail of the post, there’s a link to the text box for new comments and the post comments below it (we’re planning to add a […]

Social Bookmarking and Collecting Topical Websites

You may have noticed that a few new icons now appear at the bottom of posts (you’ve been reading the posts, right?!). These are a series of websites that all offer the service of social bookmarking.

From left to right, these link to websites known as digg, stumbleupon, furl, reddit, and delicious. Cute icons and names, […]

Newsweek’s Article: We’re Losing the War on Cancer…

   There’s a feature article in this week’s Newsweek that discusses the limitations of what we’ve achieved in the “War on Cancer” waged by Richard Nixon more than three decades ago.  Unlike the vast, vast majority of cookie-cutter, feel-good stories about the miracles of science and all of the progress we’re making, this extensive article […]

New Post Feature: What I Really Do

   We’ve now got a couple of hundred posts from the last nearly two years, and frankly that’s presented the new dilemma of making it hard to find the general summary information people want.  There are a a few dozen posts about first line treatment of advanced NSCLC, for instance, but many visitors to this […]

Developing an Index of Abbreviations and Glossary of Terms in Cancer Medicine

I try to describe the terms in posts and comments, but some people had suggested a glossary of cancer terms and abbreviations that are commonly used here, on slides, doctor’s notes, etc. This is my first attempt to develop something fairly comprehensive, but I’m sure this isn’t everything. Please add your suggestions for terms […]

Bill to Have FDA Regulate Tobacco Under Consideration by Congress

  Congress is preparing to vote on a bill that would give the FDA the opportunity and responsibility to regulate the tobacco industry.  The FDA would have the authority not to eliminate commercial tobacco, but it could eliminate added harmful ingredients while reducing tobacco levels in products.  At the same time, it would have the […]