mementomori | June 12, 2006"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." -Winston Churchill
Other than those esoteric gentlemen (or is it gentlepersons?) whose job it is to dispatch robust but morally askew, to say the least, prisoners to the shores of the river Styx (by way of the needle and the damage done, if you know what I mean), is there any other career more displeasing than that of the medical oncologist?
Not that we don't get a frisson of delight whenever the towering monstrosity named Cancer keels over after a relentless chemotherapy attack and crashes to Earth, never to…
mementomori | June 8, 2006Is this good news for workers who have been exposed to asbestos?
The Institute of Medicine researchers say... they did not find enough evidence to conclude asbestos causes cancer in the esophagus.
They also say there was insufficient evidence to infer a causal relationship between asbestos exposure and pharyngeal, stomach, and colorectal cancers.
The bad news, however, is that according to this news story, this same report suggests that asbestos exposure may cause cancer of the larynx or, as our friends in the vast universe undulating outside the small world we doctors live in call it, the "…