Ovarian Cancer
Ovarian cancer occurs in over 22,000 American women a year. Ovarian cancer kills 16,000 of them. Ovarian cancer survival rate is 20% in 5 years.
Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer is the #4 cause of cancer deaths. Pancreatitc cancer has a low survival rate. Pancreatic cancer is usually diagnosed too late, making it hard to cure
Edema – Swollen legs, arms, and hopefully not heads
Ex-Governor Eliot Spitzer must have had a pretty big ego to think he could hire prostitutes and not get caught. Hello! But then again, it seems most powerful people get a swollen head and feel untouchable-until they get a swollen lip when they get caught. Perhaps if the head did visibly swell up, it [...]
Inflammatory Breast Cancer – Easily Misdiagnosed
Tara is what Scarlett O’Hara fought for. But is land so important to fight for that you reduce yourself to wearing drapery and marrying a man you don’t love?
Someone once told me, “The secret to being a lady is knowing when to be a woman.” So Scarlett got Tara back, but her [...]
Pancreatic Cancer – Something to get an upset belly over
Hypochondria is a horrible thing. One of my best friends suffers from it – – although it’s getting better each year. I didn’t realize he suffered from hypochondria when initially he kept thinking he had testicular cancer. What he had was a groin pull. In his head it was definitely testicular cancer, and it [...]
Ovarian Cancer
“Friends come and go, Talking of Michelangelo” is my adaptation of T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. I never really got into poetry, so to challenge myself, at Denison University I enrolled not just in a poetry class, but in an honors poetry class.
Ho ho ho… hum. In [...]
Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: NHL doesn’t stand for hockey
Drama– what does it mean? When I moved to LA., I met one billion people who worked in the Hollywood “industry.” I had never heard the expression “drama in one’s life,” though, girlfriend, I’ve definitely lived it in the past. (At least I hope it’s in the past.)
I have a friend who doesn’t like drama [...]
Basal Cell Carcinoma: BCC is not Blind Carbon Copy
Cooking is an art form. When I was a medical student, I didn’t know how to cook. Everything I made was either a salad or a sandwich. One time I invited my now partner-in-life to dinner. I served a baked potato, but I didn’t have any butter– so I did what Martha Stewart would do– [...]
Bottoms Up! Screening Colonoscopies Save Lives
My office coordinator says to me, “Someone comes in for a cold, rash, or hangnail, and they leave with an order for a screening colonoscopy.” I say to her, “I also order mammograms, do PAP smears, check prostates, and do other health maintenance things– don’t those count?”
Are colonoscopies that dreaded? Should the name be [...]
Breast Cancer: A movie to save lives
Olympia Dukakis said in Steel Magnolias something like, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me.”
I have some distant relatives who complain about everything. “My ankles are swollen. I look
like Starr Jones.” “My back is killing me from all the years I worked in the fields to feed you ungrateful [...]
Melanoma: not a fruit. Skin cancer
The Beatles sang a great song, “Here Comes the Sun.” I love the sun; it makes a gray day… well, sunny. “Sunny, thank you for the sunshine in my life…”
Regardless of how much we love the sun, skin cancer is on the rise. So a rock group like No Doubt needs to come up [...]
