'Inc Cancer' tagged blog posts in Elyn Jacobs

 

The State of Maryland recently convened a team of researchers, patients and doctors to develop an anti-cancer plan they call the Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan.  Control? Interesting word, but not one I want to hear from government.  http://trap.it/TWQBWX.  However, the plan has some merit.   Ann Taylor, vice president of support services at Atlantic General Hospital, explains that “The state plan is superior to one released...

 

The other day I was asked by a representative from a cancer organization how long have I been in remission.  I didn’t know what to say; I am four years out and no one had ever asked me that.  I did not answer the question but rather said that I had cancer in 2007.  Remission is a bad word. One needs to believe that cancer has been beaten.  Remission implies that it is...