Groundhog Day was on Saturday this year, and unlike the furry little beast, what I have to say each year around this time is just as good today as him looking for his shadow on Saturday.
What is all this about, you are probably asking yourself?
It is about an annual update that ...
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We are on a search for truth, but will we ever find it? That summarizes how I feel after reading an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, which once again raises the question of how much screening mammography contributes to the progress we have made in reducing deaths from breast cancer in ...
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I was recently sitting on an airplane on my way to a far off destination for a meeting preceded by a couple of days of rest and relaxation.
In and of itself, nothing particularly special about that except that maybe a couple of folks will be jealous. But to me, right now it is an incredible moment, the culmination ...
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David Sampson, who is a colleague of mine here at the American Cancer Society, recently sent me a blog written by a woman well known in the breast cancer community who days previously had been diagnosed with recurrence of her breast cancer. The blog has captivated me, perhaps more so now that I have been facing some of my own ...
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It has been a long slog since we started our war on cancer here in the United States in 1971.
At times I am not certain that this has been so much of a war as opposed to a series of skirmishes that occasionally have produced incredible moments of optimism. But there have been a fair share of frustrations ...
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Like many of you, I have been reading the various news stories about Lance Armstrong, especially one recently in a major newspaper, which went into great detail about the allegations surrounding Lance Armstrong’s cycling career.
But what I didn’t see in all of that coverage was much mention of the other side of the man, the side that I ...
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I have a confession to make.
As soon as I finished reading the Annual Report to the Nation recently, I got up from my desk and took a walk for 20 minutes.
What, might you ask, compelled me to do this?
The answer is what made me take a walk is the same reason I am writing this follow-up commentary. ...
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An article released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in their weekly publication Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report provides an assessment of the progress we have made in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
Clearly, since 1971, we have made substantial advances in the cancer treatment. We have become a larger and older nation. ...
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I am sitting here wringing my hands that so much has been made of some studies reported recently at a major radiology conference which suggest that the impact of the breast cancer screening guidelines released by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) in November 2009 has either been good or bad on doctor ...
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