Category: My lymphoma and related medical stuff

Here is a really neat article with pictures, that I set aside meaning to post awhile ago. There are  four pictures in the article. BBC NEWS | Health | Ovulation moment caught on camera A human egg has been filmed in close-up emerging from the ovary for the first time, captured by chance during a…

Great article! Prints out at nine pages. With Child, With Cancer – NYTimes.com LIZETTE IRVIN, HEAVILY PREGNANT, reclined on a hospital bed, relaxed, considering the circumstances. A bag of fluid dripped into her blood through an IV line as Irvin sucked on ice cubes, trying to pass the time. The ice helped to minimize the metallic…

But the test is controversial. Good feature in the NY Times Ovarian Cancer Test for Women Raises Hope, and Concern – NYTimes.com The need for such a test is immense. When ovarian cancer is detected at its earliest stage, when it is still confined to the ovaries, more than 90 percent of women will live…

As people who read my blog back when I was undergoing chemotherapy, and during my Sloan Kettering stay know, I kept going to the gym throughout my chemo. I even took dumbells into Sloan, and was allowed to use them (as well as this dinky faux bicycle exercise thing they gave me) before I had my…

Another sad situation as the ex-Yankee player and broadcaster has died of brain cancer after a two year struggle. Murcer joined the Yanks in the late 1960’s, touted as the successor to Mickey Mantle – they were even both from Oklahoma. While never achieving Mantle’s level, he had an excellent career and then became a…

Gone at 53 after a three year fight with colon cancer. What a pity. A very humorous and good-natured pundit both before and after his stint as press secretary. Former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow Dies at 53 – washingtonpost.com When Bob Woodward of The Washington Post disclosed internal White House maneuvering to push…

Here is a long study from the NY Times. It deals with cost vs. benefits, incentives to physicians to perform them, etc, etc. A very good, comprehensive article, I have excerpted eight of the 95 paragraphs. Some great CT images of the heart are also included in the article! Weighing the Costs of a CT Scan’s…

I had my six month check-up with the lymphoma guru, Dr. Zelenetz, at Sloan Kettering. No news; and no news is good news. I am very slightly anemic, which is probably a follow-up to some bronchitis I had two weeks ago. Will have another blood count in a month, just to check it. But here’s something…

It's my six month check-up. No CAT scan, just bloodwork. Will write about it tonight.

From the NY Times. A very good article with useful links Personal Health – Exercise Guidelines for the Elderly – Personal Health – Jane Brody – NYTimes.com Fact: Every hour of every day, 330 Americans turn 60. Fact: By 2030, one in five Americans will be older than 65. Fact: The number of people over…