V., an immigrant from Tajikstan, is a 33 year old married mother of 2 children. Her older son, age 8, is epileptic, autistic and violent. Soon after opening a kindergarten, V. was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer. Due to the side effects of treatment, V. is unable...
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Eight Years…
Every year at about this time, in mid July, I am stopped in my tracks for a few days. It is now eight years since life changed so remarkably for me. On July 18, 2010, I went for what I thought would be a routine mammogram. No reason to worry; no symptoms, no family...
http://www.eventusdx.com/?page_id=82 New simple blood test to verify negative mammograms. To help allay concerns about what mammograms may miss. Pilot for Octava Pink test in Italy and Israel. Interesting
Financial Cost of Having Cancer
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/13/life-interrupted-the-cost-of-cancer/?smid=fb-shareFinancial Cost of Having Cancer Suleika Jaouad, age 24, has been chronicling her experience with cancer. In this column she touches on the financial cost of having cancer. Even with universal health insurance (as we have here in Israel,) the ancillary costs of a...