Add newspaper columnist Molly Ivins to the long list of women whose lives were claimed too early because of breast cancer. Ivins, who died this week at 62, suffered three times from breast cancer recurrence since 1999.A Texan, Ivins’ personality and political columns were as outsize as her native state. Her column, unabashedly liberal, was... Read more
There is never a good age to be diagnosed with cancer. However, it seems especially cruel when cancer happens to young adults, ages 20 to 39, who should be enjoying the full bloom of their youth and health. Now, according to a story in the New York Times, there’s some disturbing news about this age group. The rates of certain types of cancer,... Read more
Ever since I heard him on a radio show last winter, talking about his decision to opt out of dialysis and instead move into a hospice and die, I’ve been rooting for legendary newspaper columnist and humorist Art Buchwald, who died this week of kidney failure, nearly a year after his doctors told him he had only a few weeks to live. He was 81.
I... Read more
The headlines are full of the good news: Cancer deaths in the U.S. declined for the second straight year. According to the American Cancer Society, more than 3,000 fewer Americans died from cancer in 2004 than in 2003. This positive trend was fueled by drops in three major forms of cancer—breast, prostate, and colorectal, and for men, a decline... Read more
Every so often, a confluence of events in my life combine to make me especially anxious about my long-term health. Instead of proceeding with my usual calm, I get stressed and irritable and sad.
Here’s the confluence this time: Two people in my extended, extended family network were both recently diagnosed with very serious cancers. And... Read more
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