As promised on day 110, today I am writing about the drugs in the second phase of chemo that I am doing. FAC is a combination chemotherapy, made up of three different drugs, that can be thought of as variations on a single theme: inhibiting the co…
Happy New Year! I celebrate the start of 2013 as the year in which I will push my cancer into remission, as I complete the arc of my treatment. There is still a ways to go, but I’ll get there well before mid-year, all things being equal. The much …
A new study of the impact of long-term hormone treatment using Tamoxifen, which was presented this week as the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (www.sabcs.org), showed that 10 years was significantly better at suppressing recurrence and promoti…
Today, just a personal update. I met with my oncologist yesterday, for the regular monthly checkup to see how things are going. Then I did my taxol #5, which was uneventful. I even managed a brief nap between the blood pressure cuff automatically …
This Wednesday was only my fourth taxol, but I am beginning to feel the side effects. It’s a little earlier than anticipated, and its nothing major. And of course, everyone’s experience is a little different. Mostly I have the feeling of cold feet…
Yesterday I was at the 2012 Learning conference held by Elliot Masie and his team, which celebrates, connects and educates educators, with an emphasis on employee development and learning in the business world. I was there to represent MD Anderson…
Yesterday was my second chemo, and like the second time you do anything, was different from the first. It wasn’t all new, and yet it hasn’t exactly become routine either. It was a little odd. I am just at the three week mark, and it had been a flu…
As a very smart man once said “the journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”. Today, I take that one step, with my first chemo, and start on my personal journey. It is remarkable to me, how far I have already been brought in the past two w…
Yesterday and today is getting ready time. After a quiet weekend getting some rest and doing some everyday things, now its time to get prepared. Yesterday I got an echocardiogram as a baseline of heart function, so that we can monitor any potentia…
MD Anderson doctors practice multi-disciplinary research-driven patient care, and have done since our founding back in the early 1940s. There is a great history of MD Anderson that is well worth reading, written by Dr. James Olson, a historian and…
Entering a World of Pink 