Want vs can
As I have been cutting back in my life, I have run into some misunderstandings. There are people who think that I am not doing as many things in my life due to the fact that I don't want to. But the reality is that I cant do everything I used to do. I used to go for a daily walk. Yesterday I went for a walk because it hit 60 degrees (finally) on one of my favorite routes through the conservation land that I used to do easily. When I came home and had to lie down for a bit and was hobbling around for the rest of the day and almost bailed on cooking dinner.I was at a meeting recently and someone said something...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - April 1, 2013 Category: Cancer Tags: assumptions fibromyalgia change pain rheumatoid arthritis Source Type: blogs
Sunlight Before Signing in Obama's First Term
Jim Harper
“Sunlight Before Signing” was President Obama’s 2008 campaign promise to put all bills Congress sent him online for five days before signing them. It was a measurable promise that I’ve monitored here since the beginning of his first term, and I will continue to do so in his second.
It was the president’s first broken promise, and in the first year he broke it again with almost every new law, giving just six of the first 124 bills he signed the exposure he promised.
With his first term concluded last month, we can now assess how well the president did with Sunlight Before Signing. Complianc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 12, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jim Harper Source Type: blogs
Controversy: Surgical Margins in Breast Cancer
What is a clear margin in breast-conserving cancer surgery? ASCO Connection (link) hosts a point-counterpoint discussion by two contributors regarding surgical margins in breast cancer that would be of general interest to surgical pathologists. It is fairly brief (you can... (Source: The Daily Sign-Out)
Source: The Daily Sign-Out - January 4, 2013 Category: Pathologists Authors: Mark D. Pool, M.D. Tags: Breast cancer Source Type: blogs
Micropapillary Carcinoma of the Breast
-Micropapillary breast carcinoma (or invasive micropapillary carcinoma IMPC) is a type of otherwise 'typical' invasive ductal carcinoma which exhibits a unique and characteristic growth pattern. -Invasive micropapillary breast carcinoma is a very aggressive form of breast cancer, with a very high rate of lymph node metastasis.(The rate of lymph node involvement is estimated at between 75% and 100%).-Skin invovlement (skin retraction) is another occassional feature of invasive micropapillary carcinoma of the breast, and is observed in about 20-23% of all cases.Histological aspects of invasive micropapillary carcinoma o...
Source: Oncopathology - October 24, 2012 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast breast cancer carcinoma micropapillary poor prognosis Source Type: blogs
