[cancer] So now what?

... now, I can be as strong as I like, and as busy as I always seem to need to be. In other news, several people have suggested pulling together a book about this, specifically on the male experience of cancer. I took a few steps toward pitching a book last year, but the interest was low. Still, it's on my mind. For now, thank you everyone for the flood of good wishes, positive energy and prayer. (...

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[cancer] Excising the nacho; or; the surgical plan

... likelihood of the tumor being metastatic colon cancer varied widely from my oncologist's. The...was 70% likely to be metastatic colon cancer, 10% likely to be a primary lung cancer, and 20% likely to be a lesion from some other ...the likelihood of this being metastatic colon cancer; a number which an epidemiologist friend also...the PET scan, which is indicative of cancer. Once the tumor is biopsied, I ...

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[cancer] Seeing the surgeon today

...fear Allowing myself to become a victim The processes of chemotherapy That I will be playing whack-a-mole with cancer for the rest of my life That I will keep hurting those who love me by never getting well Leaving...move on, because in truth, what else is there to do? A close friend who is a double cancer survivor says, "I don't wear the pink hat." I suppose I wear the pink hat when I talk...

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[cancer] The sexuality of cancer

... about almost every aspect of my cancer experience over the past 18 months or so since my excellent cancer adventure first began. The sole, ... $100,000s unblinking for my cancer care, but won't cover a ... ways it rarely was before the cancer. Now I'm looking at new...The blindly ravening beast that is cancer has stolen that away from me... company has conspired with the cancer to keep me from being ...

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[cancer] Home, looking ahead

... turn. A mixed response to my thought about getting cancer tattoos. As ozarque and others have pointed it out, ...can be seen a grant of power. Yet I write cancer's name here on the Web, and in hundreds ... away the power of secrecy and shame which with cancer is invested by our society. I continue of two .... As I've said before, if love could cure cancer, I'd be the healthiest son of a bitch in...

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[cancer] Slogging forward

Since the diagnosis of my lung tumor last week, I've managed to be phenomenally busy (and therefore distracted) almost continuously. This includes quite notably a long, busy weekend as Toastmaster at WFC 2009 in San Jose in the close, loving company of calendula_witch . On my (delayed) way home now, to the peaceful quiet of my home, therein to dwell with only the echo of my thoughts. I've...

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YAY NINA!!

There was a breast cancer walk and Nina participated. The name on her shirt? MY MOMMY'S!!! Some of you may remember that my mom had breast cancer twice and had to have a double mastectomy. Nina knows, but also doesn't know how much this means to me. This horrible disease just ravaged her in a way that's...

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Pretty, pretty

... serious when it's time to be serious, and funny pretty much the rest of the time. --- On another note, one of those divas who sing the really raunchy songs should do one about breast cancer awareness. It could go something like this: Save those titties Save those titties Save those pretty, pretty titties DO - yo self exam GET - yo mammogram QUIT - them cigarettes Yo titties might be next! ...

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The American Cancer Society Reverses Its Strong Position on Mammograms and PSA Testing

...Alternative Medicine Forum. ============================================= The American Cancer Society Reverses Its Strong Position...illustration and explained that breast cancer has, on average, been growing...and contaminated with powerful environmental cancer-causing chemicals. A sizable share...112679768/PDFSTART 4) http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MED/content/MED_2_1x_American_Cancer_Society_Names...

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Kitty Cancer.

... the lump on his neck is not a lipoma... but a thyroid adenoma. Which means, it's some sort of cancer, but they can't tell if it's malignant or not. If I want to know, I'm going to have... gets big enough to prevent him from swallowing? Which terrible thing is gonna make him croak first? Kidney failure or the cancer? Do I just give up? What do I do? Somebody give me an OPTION! Fuck. Right now all I ...

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