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My Chemo Marathon
Yesterday was my first day of chemo since mid-October. Fortunately, my cancer markers have been very stable and my February PET scan showed some small growths were becoming still smaller and only one...
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Chemo Sucks
I started chemotherapy again last week. The cycle is 3 weeks on, 1 week off, and they want me to do this for 3 months but I doubt I will agree to that long. Last week was my first treatment since...
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Advancements in Cancer Immunotherapy: New Hope for Patients
Cancer immunotherapy has marked a revolutionary shift in the treatment of cancer, offering renewed hope for patients who previously had limited options. Unlike traditional treatments such as...
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Chemo Stopped Working
Recently I went through more chemo. My markers were going up and so I agreed to do chemo again. My markers went down during the first round of three treatments. However, during the second round, the...
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Childhood Cancer Experts Call for More Research Into Population Screening and...
By Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group Research into population screening and targeted surveillance for childhood cancer should be a key priority, according to leading experts in a new review...
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Chemo for Christmas
I painted the above several years ago, before metastatic cancer reared its ugly head. Since then, for a time my hands weren’t working. Now I can at least type but painting is still beyond me, at least...
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Chemo Has Come a Long Way
I was first diagnosed with cancer when I was 36 years old. It was a very aggressive form of cancer, inflammatory breast disease. Originally, I decided not to do chemo and radiation despite my doctor...
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Living With Cancer
I was diagnosed with cancer for the first time 20 years ago. The type was inflammatory breast disease and I was told I had 6 months to live. If I was lucky, I might make it 18 months. Yet I’m still...
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Hovering Over the Sink
When going through cancer, there are good days and bad days. This is particularly true when you opt to do chemo. Monday a friend took me to get an infusion at Texas Oncology because I had woken up,...
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Designing Better Ways to Deliver Drugs
By Michaela Jarvis | School of Engineering | MIT News When Louis DeRidder was 12 years old, he had a medical emergency that nearly cost him his life. The terrifying experience gave him a close-up...
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