IVA SKOCH | IVA SKOCHOVÁ http://www.skochova.com/blog Journalist on the Czech beat. Travel writer. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:52:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 doubleX – How Two Cancer Survivors Ended Up in Africa http://www.skochova.com/blog/2009/11/20/doublex-how-two-cancer-survivors-ended-up-in-africa/ http://www.skochova.com/blog/2009/11/20/doublex-how-two-cancer-survivors-ended-up-in-africa/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:50:56 +0000 admin http://www.skochova.com/blog/?p=274 doublexNoel Carmichael was laying flat in a hospital in Tanzania after emergency life-saving surgery, trying to remember why she thought that moving to sub-Saharan Africa was a good idea in the first place. She was in pain, but unable to reach the nurses because—for reasons she’ll never understand—the emergency bell was mysteriously placed on the wall behind her, well out of reach from the bed….

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Iva Skoch and Kairol Rosenthal, two writers who were diagnosed with cancer in their late 20s, are among the advocates of a laughter-filled approach to the disease. They discuss the concept of “cancertainment” and suggest ways that young adults undergoing cancer treatment can take a different approach to the disease than older generations. Skoch is the author of the recent Newsweek.com article “Young Patients Laugh at Cancer” and Rosenthal is the author of Everything Changes: The Insider’s Guide to Cancer in Your 20s and 30s

Listen to the full Interview HERE

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Cancer kills more young people than any other disease, and survival rates have not improved in more than 30 years for people in their 20s and 30s. How some patients are using humor to fight back.

By Iva Skoch | Newsweek Web Exclusive Jul 29, 2009

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]]> http://www.skochova.com/blog/2009/09/23/newsweek-a-malignant-melanoma-walks-into-a-bar/feed/ 0 Best Cancer Reporter award http://www.skochova.com/blog/2007/10/27/best-cancer-reporter-award/ http://www.skochova.com/blog/2007/10/27/best-cancer-reporter-award/#comments Sat, 27 Oct 2007 18:18:00 +0000 admin http://www.skochova.com/blog/?p=65 4493_webOf all the things I thought I would be one day, Best Cancer Reporter certainly wasn‘t one of them. Hey, cancer will do weird things to you.

I was honored to receive the Best Cancer Reporter Merit Award (award written by a patient) for the Op-Ed piece on colon cancer, published by The Prague Post. It was presented to me by the European School of Oncology in October 2007 in Rome.

]]> http://www.skochova.com/blog/2007/10/27/best-cancer-reporter-award/feed/ 0 Interview with Czech ex-Prime Minister Zeman http://www.skochova.com/blog/2007/03/29/interview-with-czech-ex-prime-minister-zeman/ http://www.skochova.com/blog/2007/03/29/interview-with-czech-ex-prime-minister-zeman/#comments Thu, 29 Mar 2007 13:59:00 +0000 admin http://www.skochova.com/blog/?p=11 The Prague Post published my interview with the Czech ex-Prime Minister Miloš Zeman. An interesting and knowledgeable character, he plays a unique and important role in Czech politics even now.

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