Cancer – Page 20 – white pebble

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On to-do list: Mapping the Cancer Genome

February 23, 20071 Comment

Mapping the Cancer Genome: From Scientific American: “If we wish to learn more about cancer, we must now concentrate on the cellular genome.” Nobel laureate Renato Dulbecco penned those words more than 20 years ago in one of the earliest public calls for what would become the Human Genome Project. “Either try to discover the … Continue reading On to-do list: Mapping the Cancer Genome

Time sure passes

February 21, 20072 Comments

I’d chronicle it, but it’s so very boring here, being a cancer patient. At least the weather is warming up and the ice is melting. The squirrel nest outside my window is no longer an icy wonder, but is now a besodden mess on the end of the branch, like it’s supposed to be. The … Continue reading Time sure passes

Checking in…

January 23, 20075 Comments

I have spent the past few days fine-tuning my “Cancer Patient” daily schedule, sub-module entitled “Life during Chemotherapy.” What this involves: watching television eating a scrambled egg with cheese drinking smoothies from Smoothie King keeping myself hydrated taking my medicine going to radiation, if it’s a week-day watching more television going to sleep early I … Continue reading Checking in…