writer's life

Sunflowers

What do sunflowers have to do with my forthcoming book, now titled Every Breath Is a Gift: Reflections on My Leukemia Journey? The first one to guess gets a free copy hot off the presses next month!  

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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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