by John Leifer | Oct 7, 2015 | Cancer, Hope
“Cancer is not a straight line. It’s up and down.” —Elizabeth Edwards When an initial treatment proves insufficient Cancer treatments fail. It’s that simple. Though patients enter treatment with great hope, that hope may be dashed when either further evidence of...
by John Leifer | Jul 6, 2015 | Cancer, Healthcare, Hope
“When you hear the word ‘cancer,’ it’s as if someone took the game of Life and tossed it in the air. All the pieces go flying. The pieces land on a new board. Everything has shifted. You don’t know where to start.” —Regina Brett[i] A diagnosis of cancer can be...
by John Leifer | May 28, 2015 | Cancer, Healthcare, Healthcare reform, Pharmaceutical, Pharmaceutical
Beyond the caring rhetoric carefully crafted by providers of cancer treatment and therapeutics, there exists a motivation every bit as powerful as saving lives — reaping billions of dollars in profit. That’s what is at stake in the ongoing war on cancer...
by John Leifer | May 19, 2015 | Cancer
For Recently Diagnosed Cancer Patients and Their Families There is one piece of advice that Lori and I offer without equivocation to newly diagnosed cancer patients – slow down…take your foot off of the accelerator, and realize that you have begun a journey not a...
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