Lifelines / Safer, More Effective Cancer Care

We just returned from the Cleveland Clinic for my quarterly scans and MRI’s. During those three days, I met a number of patients like myself who were on treatment or had liver transplants. What impressed me was their determination and intention to get the best...

Cancer Survival / What Are The Essential Questions?

The old notion of the all-knowing doctor and the passive, compliant patient still works some of the time. But if you’re facing a life-threatening illness, there’s a good chance that this outcome may not be optimal. Not because doctors aren’t trying,...

Cancer / God Is Our Lifeline!

Is God Really Listening? Lee Coit talks about learning to discern between our inside and outside voices in his book Listening: How to increase Awareness of Your inner Guide : “There is a power in us that is of God….This power is reached in a most unusual...

Lifelines / The Voice Of Cancer Survival

Tools For Researching Your Own Diagnosis!,,,, There are a number of important research tools that most patients don’t know about, including molecular profiling, cancer biomarkers, and chemosensitivity assays. Additionally, TumorGrafts, implanted in animal...

Lifelines / Exceptional Cancer Patients

It’s evident that there is a wide chasm-even disconnect-between cancer research and clinical oncology. Groundbreaking discoveries and made regularly, but most patients and even some oncologists are not aware of them. Moving slower than a turtle and sometimes at...

Lifelines / The Voice Of Cancer Survival

In late March of 2003, I was lying in a large, cavernous chemo room in Michigan. As 10 million units of interferon coursed into me, I could feel myself going into the abyss. Even though I was in this dream state, I can remember my oncologist whispering in my ear,...