"Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours." -Sir William Osler
My archives are located at Archives of the Cheerful Oncologist, Volume 2
November 29, 2006
Category: Commentary
Before we all jump into the station wagon to hightail it down to the local liquor store a few sobering facts must be put in the record.
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November 28, 2006
Category: Literary
He was killed by German machine gun fire on November 4, 1918 while wading across the Sambre-Oise Canal in northern France. His mother received the telegram announcing his death one week later, on Armistice Day.
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November 27, 2006
Category: Commentary
Since I know I'm not the only poor soul swamped with post-Thanksgiving chores and Rodin-like cogitations I offer some brief headlines for perusal by those interested in the status of health on Mothership Earth. Smokers At Greater Risk of Alcohol-Use...
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November 23, 2006
Category: Lyrical
Wishing you all the blessings of family, work, friendship, faith and most of all good health. If I may I'd like to show you a piece from one of my favorite artists - Daniel Garber (1880-1958). For more information about...
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November 20, 2006
Category: Commentary
If you are interested in stem cell research, the biology of cancer cells or promising new targets for anti-cancer therapy, today is your lucky day. Two new studies, one from Italy and one from Canada, both report an astonishing finding:...
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November 19, 2006
Category: Literary
[Editor's note: The narrator has been begging me for months to let him post some poetry on this site, using the argument that unless we promote the world's greatest poems, the collective I.Q. of this country is going to drop...
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November 18, 2006
Category: Anti-smoking
In a hypothetical setting one could tell a teenage daughter who smokes and is sexually active that if she were diagnosed with HPV-16 infection now, her risk of developing cervical cancer over the next decade is 1400% higher.
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November 15, 2006
Category: Literary
A chest CT revealed the suspicious lesions, some plastered up against the pleural lining like a mud dauber's nest, some floating in the lung parenchyma like bubbles in the airy meadow.
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November 14, 2006
Category: Commentary
I realize that one study doesn't prove the world is flat, but there seems to be an ever growing body of evidence that today's beef is not healthy for some of us.
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November 10, 2006
Category: Humor
My name's Percival Clive Woolfardisworthy. I'm a private eye. More specifically, I'm a non-board certified hematologist in private practice, but I like to think of myself as a shamus, not to mention I wish my name was Sam Spade instead of Percival Clive Woolfardisworthy.
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November 9, 2006
Category: Anti-smoking
Smoking - the gift to kids that keeps on giving...
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November 7, 2006
Category: Commentary
Children and teenagers in the US are getting fatter stomachs, putting them at increased risk of developing heart disease and diabetes, say researchers. They found the belly fat of children and teens had increased by more than 65 per cent...
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November 6, 2006
Category: Patient Advocacy
She was weak, nauseated and showing unmistakable signs of failing nutrition - observations that make oncologists' stomachs roil with uncomfortable thoughts.
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November 3, 2006
Category: Anti-smoking
Do you get a feeling of relief whenever you see an anti-smoking advertisement directed toward teenagers? If you do you may want to sit down. Now there is a freshly published study out of Australia that concludes the following: Exposure...
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November 2, 2006
Category: Patient Advocacy
"No one knows how long you can keep up this work, but this is your task; I guess I would call it a monumental task to build a monument to yourself, so that the world can see your strength and glory in the face of a despicable illness."
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