Where's your wife?

Cancer Bitch recommends that you do not ask this question. She has asked it twice in the last 2 years and it was awkward in the first case. ...

The Passive Cancer Patient

She said, Did you ask your oncologist what she thought about the calcifications ? I said, No, I forgot. Then I thought better of it and thou...

Talking to a stone

I am the stone. I've heard over and over that exercise is important in keeping breast cancer from coming back. I even have an exercise b...

What's on my food?

I found a new-ish (launched this summer) website that tells you what pesticides you're ingesting with each piece of fruit or vegetable....

Follow-up

Swedish researchers found that eating foods that were high in acrylamide did not cause breast cancer. To wit: During a mean follow-up of 1...

Hello, Sweet; Good-bye, Crunchy

First the sweet: A pot of bright tomato-red-orange lilies appeared in one of our flower beds yesterday. It seems new, since the tag is still...

Eat, drink, be merry and quick & get health insurance

The New York Times reported today on a study by the American Institute for Cancer Research. Conclusion: Women can cut their risk of breast c...

On a scale of one to ten...

That's what they always ask you: Where is your pain on a scale of one to ten? The question, of course, is, what's ten? I imagine ten...

Cancer has left the family...

downtown Litchpatch ...as far as we know. My mother-in-law's melanoma was removed from her leg, skin was grafted over it, and there'...

Sonia's Antibiotic

My mother is a subset of the category of Typical Jewish Mother--she's elegant and tasteful, The Jewish Jackie Kennedy, my cousin has cal...