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Terrorized By The ‘War On Cancer’

by Gilles Frydman | Nov 27, 2009

How a Three-Word Mantra Has Undermined America’s Ability To Make Sound Healthcare Decisions with apologies to Zbigniew Brzezinski In his original article about the war on terror Brzezinski argues that the use of the term War on Terror was intended to generate a...

From incurable to “We can now call you cured”: Cheryl Greene’s story

by e-Patient Dave | Nov 11, 2009

Here’s another true e-patient story from one of our team. Cheryl Greene is third from the left in the banner at top of this blog. She’s a long-time friend of our founder “Doc Tom” Ferguson, a board member of the Society for Participatory...

e-Patient Training Topic: National Article Reports Relative Risk, Not Raw Data.

by e-Patient Dave | Aug 14, 2009

Important update: it turns out the writer did get it right, and this was an editing error at the Boston Globe. See my comment August 17. —– As empowered, engaged patients we have a responsibility to evaluate the articles we read. A case in point is this...

Stress: the New Normal for Cancer Patients?

by Susannah Fox | May 2, 2009

Deborah Bell is actively involved in cancer advocacy and manages several online communities for cancer patients, their families, and their friends, having been an ACOR listowner for 11 years, and a listmember for 13. She contributed the following essay: I know a...

Immediate data requested. Please share with breast cancer patients everywhere.

by e-Patient Dave | Apr 30, 2009

Chapter 5 of the e-Patient White Paper is E-Patients as Medical Researchers. It details how, in the absence of sufficient medical data for their cases, patients and parents have conducted extraordinary research, time after time, often stunning the medical...