world of cancer

The Page-Hungry Bookworm’s review and Q&A

Please read book review blogger The Page-Hungry Bookworm’s review of Every Breath Is a Gift as well as the question-and-answer interview she conducted with me. Erin’s memoir is one of those books that make us conscious about the gifts we have in life, the greatest of them all—the ability to breathe. Yes, indeed, every breath is a […]

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world of cancer

Quality of patient life matters

Yet another post about news from the ASCO conference. Sometimes treatment is worse than the disease, at least when it comes to whole-brain radiation, a new study declares. Once cancer metastasizes (spreads) to the brain, doctors treat it with radiotherapy, which uses ionizing radiation to control or kill localized tumors. One-third to one-half of patients in the United […]

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