Two friends recently contacted me regarding second opinions for close relatives with advanced cancer. Of course, I frequently see patients for second opinions, and my
Nowadays one hears the term “disparities” described and lamented upon frequently in the comparison of outcomes between racial or ethnic groups for various diseases, including,
I don’t suppose too many of us are familiar with the areca palm, but it grows widely in India and throughout much of the rest
The National Cancer Institute was established in 1937 as the lead institution for the federal government to plan and monitor the conduct of research and
Editor’s note: When Dr. Neugut emailed that he’d be writing a column for the Purim section, Bracha Schwartz, our special section editor, said it was
An old physics joke: A proton walks into a bar and orders a beer. The bartender asks, “Are you sure?” The proton says, “I’m positive.”
My daughter is getting married next week (Mazel tov!) so I felt this topic would be good. While some may feel it is inappropriate to
Each January, the American Cancer Society publishes its analysis of cancer statistics for the U.S. They provide a sense of what is doing better and
By the age of 40 in 2013, Amy Reed seemed to have obtained everything you could want in life. She grew up in Philadelphia, her
I have just finished reading George Eliot’s wonderful novel “Middlemarch.” Whenever I read a book or see a movie from the Victorian era, I am
In ancient times, ignorance about the workings of nature and the universe resulted in almost all people having a belief in one or another deity
heI am frequently asked about clusters—the occurrence of cancer cases in a given neighborhood or building or other population thought to be unusually high and
