For a long time there was a nihilism about following patients who had undergone surgery for lung cancer.  What good…
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In a provocative editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine by Gilbert Welch and colleagues from Harvard, the authors…
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Oncologists worry about their patients.  It’s in their DNA — at least in the good ones.  COVID-19 puts an added…
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Mammography — the Latest Word

Posted: May 5, 2020
Mammograms prevent death from breast cancer.   Right?  Not so fast.  In recent years naysayers have spread the concept that mammograms…
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Cancer and COVID-19, continued

Posted: April 4, 2020
In a recent posting, Dr. Stark gave several reasons why he thought patients being treated for cancer would be more…
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