Earlier this week I blogged about the cancer conference, the WIN Symposium which I attended last week. I summarized some of the current challenges in developing personalized cancer therapies, including the complexity of cancer. The […]
Last week I attended a great cancer conference, the WIN Symposium which this year was titled “Personalized Cancer Therapy – from Innovation to Implementation”. This conference has brought together some of the best thinkers and […]
In another month or so, I am joining an immunotherapy clinical trial that is aimed at suppressing recurrence, by training the immune system to pay attention to cancer cells more effectively. It is a trial designed […]
The SCAR Project has recently been in the center of a censorship controversy with its Facebook page. Here is some recent news coverage (thanks Lauren!): NBCnews.com: Mastectomy portraits banned from Facebook amid image censor confusion […]
15I was honored to participate in a panel on blogging today, at an event for survivors and caregivers. We were asked to address what got us to write the blogs. That’s a good question – […]
Have you ever watched the Amazing Race TV show? Teams race across the globe, overcoming puzzles and challenges, for a $1M prize. Right at the end, after the winners have crossed the finishing line the […]
Cancer challenges a lot of your comfort zones. The other night we were watching Baring it All, the documentary about the SCAR Project and the fact that the women being photographed were comfortable showing their bodies was […]
Yesterday was a great day, and not one that I thought would happen so soon. I met and was photographed by David Jay, the man behind the SCAR Project. I had contacted David some months […]
Listen to a summary of recent posts about the need for more research on male breast cancer. [gigya src=”http://boos.audioboo.fm/swf/fullsize_player.swf” flashvars=”mp3=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F1397090-why-we-need-more-research-on-male-breast-cancer.mp3%3Fsource%3Dwordpress&mp3Author=oliverbogler&mp3LinkURL=http%3A%2F%2Faudioboo.fm%2Fboos%2F1397090-why-we-need-more-research-on-male-breast-cancer&mp3Time=07.49pm+16+May+2013&mp3Title=Why+we+need+more+research+on+male+breast+cancer” width=”400″ height=”160″ allowFullScreen=”true” wmode=”transparent”]
In a recent post I discussed the underfunding of basic research on the male form of breast cancer, and advocated for 1% of breast cancer research funding to involve male disease, in proportion to 1% […]
Entering a World of Pink 