Tag: MELANOMA [Up Island Eggs]

Rumination 6: Intermission May 24, 2007 Several unexpected events have occurred since I wrote Rumination 5 on Sunday, May 13th. The first occurred on Monday, when Dr. Hodi called me in the evening to tell me that the lab results have fi

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Katherine Long

Rumination 5 - The Lost Month

Monday, 14 May 2007 6:15 A GMT-05

Rumination 5 – The Lost Month May 13, 2007 You may have noticed discussions of clinical trials and patients circumventing them in both the popular (e.g., Wall Street journal, May 4, page A15) and in the scientific literature (news@na

Katherine Long

Ruminations 4: Pet Results, Decisions and Uncertainties

Saturday, 14 April 2007 6:15 A GMT-05

Ruminations 4: PET Results, Decisions, & UncertaintiesApril 13, 2007 It has been an interesting few weeks, full ofuncertainty, and while some decisions have been made,the uncertainty will continue for several more weeks.This is just an in

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Katherine Long

Ruminations 3

Thursday, 22 March 2007 6:16 A GMT-05

Ruminations 3: Radiation Therapy DecisionsBy Tom VoglMarch 22, 2007 As I mentioned in the first of these rumination,Reprise, medical decisions are intrinsically syntheticrather than analytic. My currently imminent decisionon whether or not to undert

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Katherine Long

Ruminations 2 - Reprieve

Friday, 9 March 2007 6:20 A GMT-05

Reprieve March 8, 2007 Yesterday I had meetings with both the surgeon, Dr. Norris, and the oncologist, Dr. Hodi, about the upshot of which more later. In the month between my last surgery

Katherine Long

Rumination 1 - Reprise

Monday, 5 February 2007 6:19 A GMT-05

Tom wrote this about his cancer and we sent it out to the mailing list of people who wanted to be kept uptodate on his condition. Someone suggested Tom publish it, so here it is. I am rather amused that the message I started teaching to my bi

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Katherine Long