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Perceptions of Chemo: As Bad As Feared?

April 6, 2008 - 2:12 pm

The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) is the oldest survivor-led advocacy group, and they recently released some highlights of their study on perceptions of chemotherapy vs. the experience of patients who actually underwent chemotherapy for a cancer in the last few years. Because several membes have raised questions of whether […]

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Tribute to Judah Folkman, Father of Angiogenesis

January 22, 2008 - 11:55 pm

Although we’ve had sad string of bad news on the forums from many of the users recently, I need to add a link to an obituary as part of a tribute to Judah Folkman, who died this past week of a heart attack at age 74 (obituary here). He was […]

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Screening for Breast Cancer vs. Lung Cancer

March 28, 2007 - 9:41 am

The American Cancer Society has just recommended that breast MRIs be performed in addition to mammograms in women who are estimated to have a lifetime risk of developing breast cancer of 25%, primarily those women with a signfiicant family history of breast cancer. The evidence on breast MRI indicates that this technique […]

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