When I think spring, I think green. The various shades of green dazzle the eyes, but nothing signals the start of spring like the clean-cut outfield in a baseball stadium, the bright green a stark contrast to the brown dirt infield. I wasn’t always a baseball fan. I mean, I played one season of softball […]
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The isolation of illness is real. Not only because you don’t feel well enough to go out in public, but because some treatments suppress a patient’s immune system, making it physically unsafe for them to be around large crowds and even family and friends. Every time I was admitted to the hospital during treatment for
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The below story was read at the 2012 Capitol Hill Classic. Boxer and actor Randall “Tex” Cobb once said “Courage isn’t the absence of fear; it’s the dealing with it.” Fear has the potential to motivate and encourage you, something Julie Matthews understands well. Julie is the special projects coordinator at The Side-Out Foundation, the
Recently, Emanuel Petriocoin and Lance Liotta of George Mason University’s (GMU) Center for Applied Proteomics & Molecular Medicine (CAPMM) discovered that activation of the protein ALK (anaplastic lymphoma kinase) is associated with inflammatory breast cancer, a particularly aggressive form of the disease: “Mason Research Gives Hope to Women With Deadliest Breast Cancer”. Although this study
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Dr. Nicholas Robert, one of The Side-Out Foundation’s scientific advisors, was recently invited to serve as a member of the Cancer Research Committee for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the world’s premier professional organization of oncologists. The organization includes approximately 30,000 members worldwide, clincial oncologists of multiple specialties and interests. Dr. Robert’s appointment
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I recently joined an on-line dating service. I’m 32, I’m decent looking, I have a job I enjoy and family and friends I love. My motto is “go with the flow”…well, more specifically, my e-mail tagline is “When you come to a fork in the road, take it” (Yogi Berra). But I’m wavering a little
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According to the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS), a cancer survivor is “anyone with a history of cancer, from the time of diagnosis and for the remainder of life, whether that is days or decades”. I recently learned that the phrase “cancer survivor” was first used by a physician, Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan, in a
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This evening, I downloaded a video clip from the Today Show. It was a Cancer question and answer session where people write in or call in and ask questions to a panel of cancer experts. It was the most bizarre thing ever. Every answer the Cancer experts gave was in and around the intersection of
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When we were at the Lone Star Classic we met a group of people supporting a young lady by the name of Halle Brent who was fighting brain cancer at the time. The created a little pin and honored Halle at every match. They were kind enough to drop off a pin with a little
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