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    Getting a B in Chemo

    MAY 2, 2012 9:41AM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: memori, cancer, chemotherapy, oprah, hats, side effects

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    • 8 Ratings
    • 609 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    Springtime in Chemo and Elsewhere

    APRIL 22, 2012 6:13PM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: walter wangerin, billy collins, cancer, chemotherapy, chanticleer, friendship, honesty

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    • 19 Ratings
    • 4928 Views
    • 20 Comments
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    Top Ten Koch Facts

    APRIL 10, 2012 3:35PM

    By Robert Greenwald


    Topics: brave new foundation, robert greenwald, koch brothers exposed, charles koch, david koch, koch industries, koch brothers, cato institute, cancer, keystone xl pipeline, climate change, alternet, new yorker, think progress, joseph stalin, house energy and commerce committee, native americans, open call

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    • 10 Ratings
    • 2347 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    My Hunger Games

    APRIL 5, 2012 8:18AM

    By Julie White


    Topics: food, hunger, mothers, love, celiac, cancer, friendship, gifts

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 1091 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    My Albatross

    APRIL 2, 2012 10:38AM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: cancer, surgery, recurrence, physicians, albatross

    • Editor's Pick
    • 12 Ratings
    • 1758 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Kochs, Lies, and Videotape

    MARCH 31, 2012 1:00PM

    By Robert Greenwald


    Topics: open call, wal-mart, voter id laws, robert greenwald, resegregation, melissa cohlmia, koch industries, koch brothers exposed, david koch, crossett arkansas, charles koch, cancer, brave new foundation, americans for prosperity, alec

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    • 8 Ratings
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    Of Side Effects and Spring Hats

    MARCH 22, 2012 8:44PM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: memoir, cancer, chemotherapy, hair loss, side effects, cisplatin

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    • 7 Ratings
    • 1254 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Marching Through Chemo

    MARCH 14, 2012 8:16AM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: chemotherapy, hair loss, cancer, side effects, prayer, statistics, church

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 1454 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    The Banality of Chemo

    MARCH 2, 2012 10:49AM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: cancer, chemotherapy, pastoral counseling, medical emergencies, low blood count

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 1400 Views
    • 11 Comments
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    Don’t Scare the Newbie

    FEBRUARY 23, 2012 10:13PM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: cancer, chemotherapy, fear, cowardly lion, recurrence

    • Editor's Pick
    • 11 Ratings
    • 3090 Views
    • 18 Comments
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    Gary Carter Succumbs to Cancer: The "Kid's" Ironic Death

    FEBRUARY 17, 2012 8:56AM

    By Andy Wolfenson


    Topics: baseball, sports, news, death, cancer, darryl strawberry, dwight gooden, keith hernandez, lenny dykstra, mets, expos, gary carter

    • Editor's Pick
    • 34 Ratings
    • 1882 Views
    • 38 Comments
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    My Battle With Mesothelioma

    FEBRUARY 14, 2012 1:23PM

    By Ben Sen


    Topics: valentines day, ben sen's essays, mesothelomia, cancer, wrongful death, surrogate's court, human dignity

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 1385 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    Maiden Voyage of the Space Ship Chemo

    FEBRUARY 3, 2012 10:48AM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: memoir, cancer, chemotherapy, port, anti-nausea drugs

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    • 13 Ratings
    • 3093 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Chemo makes your eyeballs swell

    JANUARY 27, 2012 10:31AM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: cancer, chemotherapy, patient education, side effects

    • Editor's Pick
    • 9 Ratings
    • 2125 Views
    • 17 Comments
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    The Almost Child

    JANUARY 24, 2012 2:22PM

    By Lesley Clark


    Topics: cancer, death, dying, doctors, kids, love, life, happiness, sadness, children, female, ovaries, cyst, illness, sickness, childbirth, friendship

    • Editor's Pick
    • 14 Ratings
    • 1170 Views
    • 15 Comments
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    Put on a Happy Face

    JANUARY 19, 2012 8:21PM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: cancer, wigs, hair loss, makeup, memoir, information session

    • Editor's Pick
    • 38 Ratings
    • 6638 Views
    • 44 Comments
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    The Cancer No One Cares About

    JANUARY 5, 2012 9:24PM

    By Annie Keeghan


    Topics: feminism, apathy, lung cancer, breast cancer, cancer, health

    • Editor's Pick
    • 6 Ratings
    • 1330 Views
    • 8 Comments
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    My Month of Denial

    JANUARY 2, 2012 11:00AM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: cancer, memoir, surgery, baldness, hair loss, denial, surgical port, metaphors, meryl streep

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 1786 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    Getting the Diagnosis

    DECEMBER 2, 2011 10:16AM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: cancer, chemotherapy, christmas eve, staging, health

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 1878 Views
    • 16 Comments
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    How to Spend a Day in Chemotherapy

    NOVEMBER 9, 2011 11:43AM

    By cancerdancer


    Topics: cisplatin, taxol, nausea, food, kindness, nurses, chemotherapy, cancer

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