Siddhartha Mukherjee

Ken Burns’ “Cancer: The Emperor Of All Maladies” To Premiere on PBS March 30 – April 1, 2015

The 4 Books that I Found To Be The Most Helpful During Breast Cancer

New Epigenetics Research

Making the Effort To Walk To Church In A Blizzard and Then Getting Dissed By The Priest’s Sermon

This was a post I originally wrote on February 2, 2011 which I thought I’d revisit and dust off. Very deja vu and apropos. All of this snow has me thinking about when we were kids, because it sure seemed like we had a lot of snow days back then. In particular, I remember one […]

Cancer Was Not a Gift & It Didn’t Make Me a Better Person: Book Review

I follow a blogger, Nancy Stordahl, author of the blog Nancy’s Point, who also writes about her experience with breast cancer. Nancy recently wrote and published a memoir titled “Cancer Was Not A Gift and It Didn’t Make Me A Better Person.” Even the title of the memoir is so Nancy, so honest and true, with a healthy dose of […]

Is My Cancer Different? – New Website

“Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe GE Healthcare recently launched a new website that encourages cancer patients to ask their medical team the question “Is My Cancer Different?” in order to […]

The New York City High Line

“I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.” — Henry David Thoreau On Sunday I went into the City to walk The High Line with friends. Somehow I must have missed it’s opening. I started to hear about it sometime last year, snippets here […]

How I Unveiled My Reconstructed Breasts For the First Time and Probably Scarred a Young Boy For Life

Tomorrow it will be 3 years since my mastectomy (November 15, 2010). And, since it’s an anniversary of sorts, I wanted to write something to honor the day, but frankly I’m so sick of talking about the serious side of breast cancer that I decided instead I would use the occasion to relate one […]

Ken Burns’ “Cancer: The Emperor Of All Maladies” To Premiere on PBS March 30 – April 1, 2015

The 4 Books that I Found To Be The Most Helpful During Breast Cancer

New Epigenetics Research

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