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Cancer Medicine Politics

John McCain: A “crazy cancer-ridden dishonest madman”?

I was disappointed to find an approving link from a fellow ScienceBlogger to this sort of rant by Matt Stoller: We all know that winning this election is not enough. It’s just not. It’s not even close. This is the most unpopular President we’ve ever had and our opponent is a crazy cancer-ridden dishonest madman. […]

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Cancer Clinical trials Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

Vitamin C and cancer revisited

It’s been quite a while since I wrote about this topic, but, quite frankly, I didn’t think anything new was likely to come up that would interest me sufficiently to take it on again. I was almost right; it’s been well over two years since the last time I discussed the issue of whether or […]

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Bioethics Cancer Medicine

Dichloroacetate and cancer: Health scammers never die; they just keep popping up like Whac-A-Mole

It’s been a long time, been a long time, Been a long lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely time. – Led Zeppelin Not nearly long enough. – Orac Some rats never die, it would appear. You may recall last year, when I spend a considerable amount of verbiage writing about a promising cancer drug called dichloroacetate […]

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Announcements Medicine

Cancer research blogging on a lazy Saturday in August

It’s Saturday, and what better way to spend it than in front of the computer? Who cares if it’s sunny and in the low 80s, temperature-wise? Why would you care about that when there’s so much great blogging about science, specifically cancer research, at the latest installment of the 12th Edition of the Cancer Research […]

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Bioethics Cancer Clinical trials Medicine

The costs and benefits of the latest, greatest cancer drugs

Last week, The New York Times started a rather unusual series in its medical section entitled, The Evidence Gap, described thusly: Articles in this series will explore medical treatments used despite scant proof they work and will consider steps toward medicine based on evidence. When I first saw the series, I was prepared for a […]