http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com This blog has moved on to ScienceBlogs - come and check it out! Mon, 12 Jun 2006 15:41:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’ve managed to knock my new blog site off of the ScienceBlogs main menu. Is this akin to letting a toddler dust off the Hummels resting peacefully on the highest shelf of the bookcase? This is just another grim reminder of the vas deferens between the wired age and us ... http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/06/12/just-a-reminder-ive-moved-i-think/ Oh, Lordy, what have I gotten myself into? I am excited to join the distinguished bloggers at ScienceBlogs as their resident sage and crazy-uncle-in-the-attic. All new posts can be found at this site: http://scienceblogs.com/thecheerfuloncologist/ This is a wonderful opportunity for me to display an extremely refined level of incompetence as I try ... http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/06/10/new-address-for-the-c-o/ “Big Pharma expected to dominate key cancer meeting” screams the headline tonight. Hey, I thought Big Pharma was our enemy - out to ruin us average Joes with their secret plans to vacuum up all the money in this country. What gives? It appears that three new treatments against metastatic renal ... http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/06/06/big-pharma-stomps-on-cancer/ Is this a club that I am not allowed to become a member of? Individuals who “downplay the fear, anger or other negative emotions” found in recalling memories of sad or unpleasant events may improve their overall mental health. Two studies from Concordia University in Montreal suggest that “healthy individuals work to ... http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/06/01/memories-are-made-of-this/ I received a disturbing shock last week while walking through a local shopping mall. It involved the ghost of one of my patients who had recently died. The horror of the situation didn’t hit me at first, but within seconds I was overcome with panic and hurried my ... http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/05/26/136/ “Marijuana Use Does Not Raise Lung Cancer Risk” [Editor’s Note: In keeping with the policies, rules, regulations, voluntary self-flagellations, edicts and Ouija board messages of this website, upper management has instructed me to remind the gentle reader that neither The Cheerful Oncologist nor his staff, minions, roadies, ancestors or anonymous ... http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/05/25/now-they-tell-me/ “Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.” After 20 days and 20 nights without television, internet access or an answering machine the ship finally arrived at Plymouth Rock and unloaded such goodies as cows, maize seed, farm implements, broadband cable access, bolts of gingham, four satellite T.V. receivers, corn whisky (who ordered ... http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/05/24/134/ As I type this a highly trained team of specialists is at my house diligently trying with all their might to hook us back up to the universe known as the internet. It has been a trying 19 days, 7 hours and 28 minutes with no home access to all of ... http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/05/22/it-might-beit-could-be/ [Editor’s Note: We recommend that you read this interesting letter to the editor all the way through before clicking on the footnotes.] To The Editor: I want to bring your attention to two recently published scientific studies that have health implications for us all. The first study found that incarcerated ... http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/05/19/132/ Yesterday a fine representative from our local cable company pulled up in his van, got out, walked up to our front door and left a hand-written note there. He did not knock, ring the doorbell, pass gas, light a firecracker, give out a Tarzan yell or perform any other ... http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/05/18/boisterously-imploring-technicians-everywhere-must-effectuate/