Personalized Cancer Care on ABC World News
In late May, I got a phone call asking if I would appear in a report being filmed for ABC World News. This coincided with the annual ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) meeting in Orlando, and...
View ArticleThe “Now you see it, now you don’t” scan
Before I move on, I thought we’d take one last, long view of the before and after CT scans of my lungs. The scan on top was taken on September 16th of 2008 two weeks prior to starting the PF-02341066...
View ArticleHumble Pie
Yesterday there was an article in the Boston Globe about a young man (high school) who suffered a major spinal cord injury while playing football. He is in rehab learning how to use his upper body...
View ArticleThe (positive) power of the media
At dusk the past two days, the moon has risen just over the lake, turning the water a shimmery silver. When I have awakened in the middle of the night , it has been to a world transformed: moonlight...
View ArticleNext steps
Where to start? It’s been a busy week. On Thursday I went to Boston for allergy testing. I sleep on a natural latex mattress and had been using a pillow out of the same material. Several mornings in...
View ArticleReports from ASCO, 2010
The annual meeting of ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncologists) is this weekend, and Crizotinib is attracting some attention. Today the plenary session will include accumulated data from the...
View ArticleXalkori Launch
We take the stage Alright Miss Duff. Enough procrastination. Time to write about the Xalkori launch. From the evening of October 25th through Thursday morning on the 27th, David and I were guests of...
View ArticleTaking the leap into clinical trials
I was initially diagnosed with non small cell lung cancer in April of 2005. My tumor was large (5 centimeters); a poor prognosticator. However, it had not spread beyond my lungs and I was staged at IB....
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