New cancer, week one
I just reread my previous post. Boy, did I leave it on a somber, teasing note. I suppose we would call this post-op day # 8. I am in the waiting and recovery mode. The surgeon minimized the discomfort that … Continue reading → (Source: Being Cancer Network)
Source: Being Cancer Network - April 2, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Journal * Living with Cancer Newly diagnosed Rare cancers Anxiety Head and neck cancer Radiation Side effects Surgery Source Type: blogs
Frankenstein ’ s Cancer
“Frankenstein” that is the first word to come to the mind of Sophia. I was sitting in the family room with a cloth over my head when the two girls came in to see Papa. day #1 post-op. Since the … Continue reading → (Source: Being Cancer Network)
Source: Being Cancer Network - March 28, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Dennis Pyritz Tags: Journal * Living with Cancer Newly diagnosed Rare cancers Head and neck cancer Hospital Parotid cancer salivary gland cancer Surgery Source Type: blogs
Transcript of Dr. Bihari Video
00:00 to 02.26—Dr. Bihari gives his background and credentials.
Dr. Bihari: My medical training started at Harvard Medical School. I graduated in 1957. Then I trained in Internal Medicine at one of the Harvard teaching hospitals in Boston, Beth Israel, and then in Neurology at Massachusetts General in Boston. Then I went to the National Institutes of Health for two years doing brain physiology—brain research. I did another residency training in Psychiatry in New York, at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and then, over the following five or six years, I got very involved in working in Drug Addiction. By 1974, I was...
Source: HONEST MEDICINE: My Dream for the Future - May 16, 2011 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: JuliaS1573 at aol.com (Julia Schopick) Tags: Anecdotal Treatments HONEST MEDICINE Integrative Medicine Low Dose Naltrexone Obituaries Source Type: blogs
Desmoplastic melanoma, a common missed diagnosis.
Introduction:Although desmoplastic melanoma represents less than 2 percent of all melanomas, it's frequently misdiagnosed, due to a lack of distinctive clinical presentation features. Histologic diagnosis is rarely straightforward either.Patients are often middle age-to-elderly and present with the tumor most often on the head and neck region. The lesion may resemble a scar as it is often a hard nodule or plaque.Pigmentation is variable but often absent. The tumor has ill-defined margins and is very infiltrative, making local control difficult. Sentinel lymph node excision is routinely performed but rarely positive.Histolo...
Source: Oncopathology - November 7, 2009 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: a common misdiagnosis. Desmoplastic melanoma Source Type: blogs
