Making the Days Count

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

Low-Dose Chemotherapy to Treat Burkitt Lymphoma

High dose chemotherapy has been the conventional approach to treating Burkitt Lymphoma (“BL”), one of the more aggressive forms of this disease.  However, long-term survival rates following this treatment approach have hovered only around 60% (and, of course, such treatment is highly toxic in itself, with onerous side effects).  A recent study sponsored by the National Institute […]

Sexual intimacy in the shadow of cancer

Here’s an interesting article from the NY Times- Sexual intimacy in the shadow of cancer: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/22/booming/my-body-changed-so-did-intimacy.html?_r=0

Do multivitamins affect cancer incidence?

From Medical News Today- Do multivitamins affect cancer incidence?: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/268547.php

Overall cancer death rates dropping

According to Cancer.gov, overall cancer death rates dropping:  http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/newsfromnci/2013/ReportNation