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  • 70,000 Americans between 15-40 are diagnosed with cancer each year. That's one every eight minutes. It's also seven times more than all childhood cancers combined. This is not OK! We exist to ensure that these young adults are made aware of – and given access to – our global support community and the wealth of age-appropriate resources that they are entitled to so they can get busy living. read more...
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  • On Saturday David, Pete, Buddy and I packed up the car for dinner and a sleepover in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Ipswich was our home for eleven years, and it’s more than nice to go back and visit. read more...
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  • A few weeks ago…I was riding the MAX towards downtown when I noticed an African woman in Muslim dress with two little children in tow. The littlest child was nodding off to sleep while standing up, holding onto her mom’s flowing skirts. Normally I would’ve buried my head back in my book, but for some reason, I started watching the little girl, wondering why her mother didn’t pick her up and hol read more...
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  • It was an expected doorbell ring. My daughter’s friend’s Mom was coming to pick up her daughter from our house. Happily, I opened the door. I hadn’t seen her since her wedding a few months back and I was excited to see how newlywed life was treating her. Apparently, not so good. read more...
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  • So a colleague of mine at work pointed me to his friend Tom, who actually had the same surgery that the doctors talked briefly about with me — where you remove half the esophagus and half the stomach. Tom’s doctors saw redness and said it was pre-malignant. He had really bad heartburn for years, so he went ahead with the procedure. read more...
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  • Tomorrow I have the pre-op meetings / appointments. It’s very odd, it seems that I’m one of the few people that haven’t had surgery before. I don’t know quite what to expect, except a lot of pain, and pain medication. read more...
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  • Cancer of the duodenum is almost unknown , and this local immunity when compared to the frequent occurrence in the contiguous stomach is an intriguing feature of this strange disease. Cancer of the whole small intestine is also remarkably rare, and this relative immunity is thought to be due to the fast transit times of ingested foods with their associated carcinoges, minimizing any local exposur read more...
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  • Swollen, lumpy, painful breasts. Breasts that pull at your back and neck. That make it difficult for you to sleep at night. That ache at the slightest bounce or read more...
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