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money

Anna Edney’s Washington Post article about the high cost of cancer drugs doesn’t have anything to do with the sequester.  This is an ongoing challenge for many of us:

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Tammi Borneman

Spirituality is such a complicated issue.  This interview with Tami Borneman at this year’s Oncology Nurses Society meetings covers a lot of key points:

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cauliflower

Nutrition and cancer; controversial, an oncology outlier.  But it is important enough for the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, think it’s important.  Very important.

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drugs

Dr. Oz featured an alarming post on his website this week.  Apparently, generic drugs aren’t always as they seem.  Dr. Tod Cooperman, President of ConsumerLab.com, claims that lax and loose FDA guidelines for drug content and quality control means you aren’t always getting what you expect.  See what you think:

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RE2

I rarely post celebrity cancer news here.  But the angle of ABC’s coverage intrigued me; the fact that Roger Ebert was such a good patient.  He stayed positive and active way longer than most of us would have the courage to do.

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canadian flag

I understand we have quite a few Canadian readers, both here and on my daily MMB.  Thought this might be of interest, especially since Cytoxan–a drug sometimes used in a wide variety of patients including multiple myeloma, ovarian and breast cancers–was one of the under-dosed agents:

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I have wanted to post something about this report since the results were released last month.  Here’s an excerpt:

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