Sanchita Sharma, Hindustan Times, Dec 18, 2016 US-based Indian-American Paul Kalanithi was 15 months away from completing his training as a neurosurgeon at age 36 when he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. The cancer was inoperable, he was going to die. “When Breath Becomes Air” is a memoir that begins with him examining
Read moreJennie Dear, Sep 9, 2016 – The Atlantic My mother and I sat across from the hospice nurse in my parents’ Colorado home. It was 2005, and my mother had reached the end of treatments for metastatic breast cancer. A month or two earlier, she’d been able to take the dog for daily walks in
Read moreABC Health & Wel By Jo Khan, 24 November 2018 at 6:23 am In 2015, we heard that processed meat was carcinogenic to humans, and red meat probably was too. In 2016, it was “very hot” drinks, but not coffee specifically (thank goodness). And with Monsanto back in the news in 2018, we were
Read moreRN by Victoria Pengilley for Life Matters, 26 Jun 2018. Cancer is a diagnosis no-one wants to hear. What follows is fear, uncertainty and the upheaval of life as you know it. More than 120,000 Australians are diagnosed with cancer each year, and the number is set to rise. Cancer Council Australia predicts one in
Read moreDr. Jason FungApr 10 The idea of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is great. The reality, though, not so much. Human perception is often flawed, so the premise of EBM is to formally study medical treatments and there have certainly been some successes. Consider the procedure of angioplasty. Doctors insert a catheter into the blood vessels
Read moreBy Alice Donaldson, Catalyst, 28 Jun 2016. New Australian research has revealed how stress can turn the body’s lymphatic system into a super highway for breast cancer cells, allowing the cancer to spread more rapidly. And now scientists also know how to prevent it from happening — at least in mice. The medical community has
Read moreTommaso Bruni, 11 October, 2016 Tommaso is a research associate in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College in London, UK. He is interested in the ethics of clinical research, the ethics of neuroscience, and bioethics. Published in association with The London Health and Society Hub, an Aeon Partner John Smith,
Read moreABC Radio Sydney, by Amanda Hoh, 12 Jul 2017. As Lucas Cheang looks through photos in his scrapbook, he points to one of his mother Tina lying in bed and says simply: “This is when mummy died.” It’s a heartbreaking sentence to hear from a six-year-old. When Tina was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer in
Read moreBy Eliza Laschon , 22 May 2016, 11:07am Perth woman Cait Calcutt had a limited understanding of palliative care until the day she reached out to a service which transformed her family’s life. Ms Calcutt’s partner Nigel Livesey was in his early 40s when he was diagnosed with three chronic, life-limiting diseases. For nine years
Read moreBy David Malham New York Times, March 11, 2015 I would not have chosen A.L.S. at the Pick Your Disease store, but there are worse things that can happen and worse ways for a life to end. The very fact that it was happening to me and not to my family was itself a relief.
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