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                  Okay. So now that TCS is back, there is a burning question. A question that has been personally burning all of us for months. What exactly can we do to stop THE CANCER SHOW? And by THE CANCER SHOW, we mean the ...Read More

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So this is my Sister-In-Law Jill. I met her in 2006, about a year after I started dating my now husband. I had been told that she was feisty, an amazing swimmer and killer snowboarder, vegetarian, and that she didn’t always ...Read More

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  I thought I was going to be wrapping up Breast Cancer Awareness Month today, but I have to admit that UNEASY PINK probably said it better than I possibly could. Instead, it's time to move onto bigger issues. Yesterday on The Daily ...Read More

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Over the last half-week Steve Jobs has been eulogized with nostalgia and without. He’s also been medically post-mortumed – which frankly seems like a jerky thing to do, but we do understand. People want to know how this all could ...Read More

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We were happy to see that Jon Stewart had Sanjay Gupta on THE DAILY SHOW last Wednesday. This whole issue has been a bee in our bonnet since the Zadroga bill passed at the end of last year after an infuriating ...Read More

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      The NYT has decided to remind us all that cancer research has yet again uncovered the unexpected: “…recent discoveries have been complicating the picture with tangles of new detail. Cancer appears to be even more willful and calculating than previously imagined.” REALLY. ...Read More

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In a surprisingly readable op-ed in the NYT, Emperor Of All Maladies author SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE manages – in an elegantly simple way – to outline exactly what the challenges of defining cancer prevention are. And – BONUS – he does ...Read More

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  For those of you who have been following this blog, we’re hesitant to use terms like “Cancer Industrial Complex” because it makes us sound (and feel) like conspiracy theorists wearing tin-foil hats. However, it’s difficult to avoid the fact that cancer ...Read More

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  In 2008, an alarming study from the University of Rochester associated the chemical DEHP with smaller penis size. DEHP is a plasticizer used in the production of PVC.  The Environmental Protection Agency classifies it as "a Group B2, probable human carcinogen."  Its current ...Read More

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It's STILL radiation... It’s STILL upping your lifetime possibility of getting cancer... And, NOW it's doing all this in amazing 3-D! No, that's not the cheesy voice over to a schlocky B-level horror movie. We're talking about something real here. And ...Read More