I live in Canada. In my province, the third Monday of February each year is a statutory holiday called Family Day. As I am publishing this story on Family Day 2022, I thought it apropos to share a story about a family who impacted me while I tried to help them on their short cancer […]
I met a most wonderful eighty-nine-year-old woman last week. She came to see me for her newly diagnosed stage four rectal cancer. She is dying from her cancer. Her cancer is an unusual rectal cancer. The most common type of rectal cancer is called adenocarcinoma. This woman’s cancer was different and of neuroendocrine origin; neuroendocrine cancers […]
For two months in the spring of 2021, I was part of the care team involved in the treatment of a sixty-seven year old woman with a newly diagnosed squamous carcinoma of the anal canal. This woman’s cancer had not spread beyond her pelvis at the time of diagnosis. This was a good thing. My […]
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