by pixelMIGHT | Jul 28, 2015
In the May 13th, 2014 edition of Propublica.org is an interesting article titled ” MIA in the War on Cancer : Where are the Low Cost Treatments? ” ( By Jake Bernstein ) It features a cancer survivor named Michael Retsky who was diagnosed with advanced GI...
by pixelMIGHT | Jul 13, 2015
It was late June of 2009, and I was on the brink. Over the previous few months I had collapsed a number of times and had to be transferred to various emergency rooms. Often I was short of breath, dizzy and swelling up like a balloon. Furthermore, many of my lab values...
by pixelMIGHT | Mar 31, 2015
I recall my initial introduction to cancer, the “emperor of all maladies,” (2) when I was 21 years old. It was 1976, and I had just completed my Bachelor of Science degree at Central Michigan University. I was working as an orderly in the emergency room at Ingham...
by pixelMIGHT | Feb 28, 2015
Each day in the United States, almost 1,600 adults and kids—enough to fill four jumbo jets—die of cancer. (1) Why are these patients allowed to crash and die? We have put people on the moon. We have sent rovers to Mars. Why, in the 21st century, are we throwing up our...
