How bad is ovarian cancer? Here’s how bad: A drug that fails to prolong the lives of ovarian cancer patients was just declared the biggest breakthrough in 15 years. According to results of two international clinical trials, published last week, the drug Avastin (aka bevacizumab) can interfere with blood vessel growth, and thereby slow disease [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ovarian’
Ovarian Cancer Drug Fail (and that’s the good news?)
Posted in Cancer, tagged avastin, chemo, ovarian, she the people, steve buie, washington post on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It Is Still September. Not Pink. Teal!
Posted in Cancer, Woman Up, tagged awareness, christie buckner, ovarian, symptoms, teal on September 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
It is still September. It is still Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month. Our color is not pink. Our color is teal. My friend Christie Buckner died at age 39. My April 2010 post about her on Politics Daily prompted so many reader letters that I wrote a followup quoting from them. Christie, somewhere there’s a memorial [...]
The Man Who Saved My Life
Posted in Cancer, tagged ovarian, remission, steve buie, survivor, symptoms, verda hunter on June 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
[updated July 5, 2011] Today I got a little emotional at my annual checkup. Come with me on the way-back machine to August 9, 2001, when severe abdominal pain sent me to the emergency room: “Everything Changed,” originally published in The Kansas City Star in 2002. On call that night about ten years ago was Dr. [...]
Mom Has Cancer. Her Son Reacts.
Posted in Cancer, Woman Up, tagged breast, elliot levine, jewish, judaism, julie levine, mother, ovarian, son on March 13, 2011 | 2 Comments »
My friend Julie Levine had everything I lacked: A charmed childhood, beautiful kids. I might have envied her had she not been the nicest person I ever met. And, therefore, a magnet for cancer. (On an Internet bulletin board I once frequented, we joked that compassion and a zest for living were risk factors.) Julie [...]
Elizabeth Edwards: Topic No. 1 for a Coupla Sick Chicks Sitting Around Talking
Posted in Cancer, Politics, Woman Up, tagged breast, elizabeth edwards, julie levine, marriage, ovarian on December 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The post you are reading is not the way this project was supposed to begin. My friend Julie and I had talked about a project with the working title: “Coupla Sick Chicks” (with apologies to the 1981 play, “A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking”). But we had no concrete plans. That’s what the meeting last [...]
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