tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-331973 2009-12-31T09:30:59-08:00 All about my circuitous navigation through conventional Western medicine, alternatives to conventional Western medicine, and the ensuing mind/body/spirit explorations and epiphanies (plus numerous digressions into other miscellaneous stuff like news about my son, favorite song lyrics and photos of my dog, my sweetie, urban decay, urban nature, and all my other visual obsessions). TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e201287694de4a970c 2009-12-31T09:30:59-08:00 2009-12-31T09:38:38-08:00

Purpose: Five or more circulating tumor cells (CTCs) per 7.5 mL of blood predicts for poorer progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with metastatic breast cancer (MBC). We conducted a prospective study to demonstrate that CTC results correlate strongly with radiographic...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20120a791d1a7970b 2009-12-31T07:53:49-08:00 2009-12-31T08:01:47-08:00

Yesterday my main accomplishments were two more phone consultations, one with my HRT practitioner, and the other with Dr. Wong in NYC. Of course, they both gave me opposite points of view and advice when we got to one of...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20120a78e1a61970b 2009-12-30T10:13:32-08:00 2009-12-30T10:13:49-08:00

I went to THIS WEBSITE and read about "transitional gowns" and what I should put on my "hospital check list" for mastectomy surgery. It reminds me of when I thought I was going to have chemo, and spent my time...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20120a78dc39c970b 2009-12-30T09:20:26-08:00 2009-12-30T10:20:55-08:00

1. Called surgeon's office. Got recorded message: closed until Jan. 4th. Left message saying I'd like to set up an appointment to discuss getting a mastectomy. (lateedah, lateedah) 2. Called and made an appointment for a phone consult on Jan....

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20128768debe3970c 2009-12-29T14:50:43-08:00 2009-12-29T14:52:25-08:00

August 1, 2008 — Radiologists suspend a patient's breast in water, and then send sound waves through the water in order to image breast tissue. The device uses 256 ultrasonic sensors to assemble 50 to 70 two dimensional slices into...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20128768de392970c 2009-12-29T14:40:14-08:00 2009-12-29T14:41:00-08:00

This Article Taken From: Science Daily ScienceDaily (Dec. 18, 2009) — Scientists from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have discovered a possible way for malignant breast tumors to be identified, without the need for a biopsy. The findings were...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20120a78868e3970b 2009-12-29T08:17:30-08:00 2009-12-29T09:47:20-08:00

I spent two hours last night, from 10:15 p.m. to 12:15, writing this "nutshell" post, which turned out to be 1500 words. Good thing I had the presence of mind to save it as a draft, first. I will go...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e201287688f5f2970c 2009-12-28T09:43:10-08:00 2009-12-28T09:43:10-08:00

Yesterday Jack and I and Olivia took a drive out to Bolinas with Blake and Emerald. When we left the city it was gray and foggy, but lo and behold, the little town and beach of Bolinas was bathed in...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e201287682b1c7970c 2009-12-26T13:16:44-08:00 2009-12-26T13:52:10-08:00

I keep thinking I'll give this highly informative update, with lots of specific details. I realize (suspect) that my friends are much less interested in all the details, and much more interested in the bottom line summary, but I like...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20120a77d0e90970b 2009-12-25T11:55:12-08:00 2009-12-25T22:27:21-08:00

Answer to the question in my Subject Line: Spending quality time with friends and loved ones, of course, which is what I did last night (Christmas Eve) when I had dinner with Jack and his two children, Emerald (24) and...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20120a7766e83970b 2009-12-23T09:47:22-08:00 2009-12-23T09:47:22-08:00

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20120a775f128970b 2009-12-23T09:18:07-08:00 2009-12-23T09:17:34-08:00

Even though I no longer pull out the boxes of decorations, don't buy gifts, don't send cards, I do still send everyone my wishes for a joyous, peaceful, loving holiday season free from the ravages of consumerism and ritualized anxiety....

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20128761f7734970c 2009-12-06T08:30:53-08:00 2009-12-06T08:32:33-08:00

Some days (actually, most days) one just doesn't have time to post to the three different blogs that one was crazy enough to create. So I think I'll let today's post be a link to: my Writing Salon blog post

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20120a7189b15970b 2009-12-05T08:01:23-08:00 2009-12-05T08:01:23-08:00

For those of you who know me and think I was born then raised in solitary confinement, here are pics of my sister Jill and her husband Vaughn, working on making a bed that they custom-designed for Vaughn's grown and...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e2012875f25207970c 2009-11-30T09:54:30-08:00 2009-11-30T09:54:30-08:00

Here's the comment I got re: my last post on mammograms: So...you think mammograms are overly prescribed? Do you think the radiation from them is potentially more dangerous than the small tumors they may uncover? It's really a strange controversy...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e2012875ecaf43970c 2009-11-29T10:12:59-08:00 2009-11-29T10:12:59-08:00

Nov. 28th: Photo Blog Update

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20120a6e9eb8a970b 2009-11-29T08:33:45-08:00 2009-11-29T10:39:51-08:00

Here's an excerpt from today's "part II" of Ralph Moss's article about the mammogram screening controvery: "Professor Samuel Epstein, MD, professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health, and Chairman of the...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20120a6cf6ee4970b 2009-11-24T08:18:37-08:00 2009-11-24T08:18:37-08:00

Let's skip the medical maladies post today, shall we? I've got an appointment with Dr. Thomas Cowan at 11 a.m. If he has anything enlightening to add to my growing list of opinions and recommendations, I'll fill you in on...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e2012875bcfa5c970c 2009-11-22T11:56:19-08:00 2009-11-22T12:08:17-08:00

I haven't been posting my "Lastest Cancer Scare News Updates" every day not because of more bad news but because: a) I've been too busy with living my regular "non-health crisis life" and b) The medical stuff is still all...

Jane Underwood tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451742569e20120a6c0930e970b 2009-11-21T09:04:16-08:00 2009-11-21T09:34:52-08:00

Thirty-two of my abstract photos are featured (along with those of two other featured artists and several other photographers), in the now-available hard-cover edition of Haphazart Magazine Issue #2 (curated and designed by the editors of the Haphazart! group, a...

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