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Cancer Medicine Surgery

Cancer thought for the day

“One dumb tumor is still smarter than ten smart oncologists.” –George Sledge, MD My only retort is that, slowly but surely, oncologists and we oncologic surgeons are getting smarter.

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Cancer Clinical trials Medicine Surgery

Cancer research: Playing it safe versus taking risks

If there’s one thing that cancer researchers, indeed most biomedical researchers in the U.S., know today it’s that the research funding climate sucks right now. Indeed, after the completion of the near-doubling of the NIH budget in 2003, during which time it was flying high, the NIH budget in essence crash landed–hard. Paylines, which had […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery Religion

“To kill and cure cancer, you must first understand it”

Yesterday, I was annoyed by a particularly vile article by quackery promoter supreme Mike Adams claiming that Christina Applegate didn’t need a bilateral mastectomy and could have “cured” herself of cancer with “natural” methods. Indeed, my contempt for Mike Adams knows no bounds, given that he is the purveyor of a seemingly never-ending stream of […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Entertainment/culture Humor Medicine Popular culture Television

Suzanne Somers versus Christina Applegate in a bilateral prophylactic mastectomy fantasy cage match!

Earlier today, I did a rather extensive post about a particularly ghoulish attempt to exploit the story of a woman with cancer, in this case Christina Applegate. It turns out that Mike Adams isn’t the only woo-meister looking to capitalize on Ms. Applegate’s misfortune, You just knew it had to happen, but Thighmaster, Bioidentical Stem […]

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Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

A ghoul descends upon Christina Applegate’s “maimed” body

This is getting to be nauseatingly frequent. As my blog bud Mark Hoofnagle pointed out, the hard-core “alternative medicine” mavens, in particular that despicable promoter of quackery and distrust of scientific medicine who runs one of the two or three largest repositories of antiscience and quackery in existence, Mike Adams, seem to have decided that […]