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#99636 07-17-2009 04:51 AM | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,219 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | OP  Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,219 | I just read this article in the New York Times and I am speechless. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/health/17screening.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1&th&emc=thI don't think that this has made the news section of the website yet and I am forwarding the link to Brian and Sheldon. Jerry
Jerry
Retired Dentist, 59 years old at diagnosis. SCC of the left lateral border of the tongue (Stage I). Partial glossectomy and 30 nodes removed, 4/6/05. Nodes all clear. No chemo no radiation 18 year survivor.
"Whatever doesn't kill me, makes me stronger"
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Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,082 | Jerry
I remember a whole thread about this Dr Kramer who apparently is the medical equivalent of Seinfield's Kramer. It is true that prostate tests are a waste of time and money and result in unnecessary surgery that inflates all our health costs. All the posters here know the stunning effect of hearing "You have cancer" and if you are diagnosed with prostate cancer it is very hard to do the right thing and "watch & wait". I think someone in this article even published a book. this is just old news reheated. Note that the article does except certain cancers and it would have been great if the New York Times had specifically mentioned oral cancer as the exception.
65 yr Old Frack
Stage IV BOT T3N2M0 HPV 16+
2007:72GY IMRT(40) 8 ERBITUX No PEG
2008:CANCER BACK Salvage Surgery
25GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Apaghia /G button
2012: CANCER BACK -left tonsilar fossa
40GY-CyberKnife(5) 3 Carboplatin
Passed away 4-29-13
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