Articles tagged: University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Candid Cancer: Progress has been erratic in the 40-year war on cancer
Posted: Mar 11, 2011Editor's note: This is the first part of a series looking at the "war on cancer." In 1971, President Richard Nixon signed the National Cancer Act into law and the war on cancer was on. ... Read more »
Candid Cancer: Evaluating radiation risk from CT and PET scans
Posted: Feb 25, 2011Every one of us is exposed to radiation simply by virtue of living. The Environmental Protection Agency says that, like a steady drizzle of rain, we're constantly showered by radiation from space, and the closer ... Read more »
Candid Cancer: Medical imaging has come a long way
Posted: Feb 18, 2011We cancer patients are routinely poked, prodded, knifed, examined, drugged — and photographed with "cameras" that take "pictures" ever so candidly of parts that some of us never knew we had, much less wanted to ... Read more »
Candid Cancer: Know thy pathologist
Posted: Feb 04, 2011Still in the operating room, I asked the surgeon to show me what he had removed. Before my sleepy eyes, he placed a vial containing what looked like a bloody pea, a small piece of ... Read more »
Candid Cancer: Newly diagnosed? The road ahead
Posted: Jan 07, 2011Judy Estes, nurse practitioner, at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer CenterYou have cancer. Those are three of the most frightening words anyone can hear. I know. I heard them — exactly nine years ago ... Read more »
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