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		<title>Looking for the best</title>
		<link>http://oncologicallyspeaking.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/looking-for-the-best/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 09:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked to see a patient for a second opinion the other afternoon. A fortyish Malaysian Chinese gentleman, he presented with a recent and unexplained loss of weight, and had been evaluated quite thoroughly elsewhere. After a lack of a conclusive diagnosis, he had decided to seek further care at my centre.
Reviewing his medical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncologicallyspeaking.wordpress.com&blog=3991975&post=70&subd=oncologicallyspeaking&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What or who is behind &#8220;Prime Oncology&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The organization &#8220;Prime Oncology&#8221; has surfaced recently, purporting to provide professional education to oncologists.
With offices in the USA and in Europe and a surfeit of conferences, it is obviously well funded, but strangely very little can be found on the Internet about just &#60;i&#62;how&#60;/i&#62;. Interestingly, the company is able to secure leading members of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncologicallyspeaking.wordpress.com&blog=3991975&post=68&subd=oncologicallyspeaking&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To please no one</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marc Weide reflects in the Guardian on the run-up to his mother&#8217;s (Mdm. Weide-Boelkes) scheduled appointment for assisted suicide, or voluntary euthanasia (the former term is preferred by myself). The article is poignant and mixed with black humour.

&#8216;I&#8217;m going to die on Monday at 6.15pm&#8217;
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		<title>A prison of our own making</title>
		<link>http://oncologicallyspeaking.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/a-prison-of-our-own-making/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopeful oncologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember the last time I met Mdm Lee clearly. She was crying in my clinic, but refusing admission for her paroxysmal vomiting and headaches. I knew her symptoms were due to brain metastases arising from her breast cancer. This malignancy had already eaten away one breast, leaving behind raw and weeping chest wall.

It had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncologicallyspeaking.wordpress.com&blog=3991975&post=58&subd=oncologicallyspeaking&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Expert witnesses</title>
		<link>http://oncologicallyspeaking.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/expert-witnesses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopeful oncologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self- deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favour, and reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncologicallyspeaking.wordpress.com&blog=3991975&post=50&subd=oncologicallyspeaking&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>East versus West</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopeful oncologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young&#8221; &#8211; JK Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I like to keep in contact with young doctors; it keeps the mind agile, and less prone to the ossification that afflicts the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncologicallyspeaking.wordpress.com&blog=3991975&post=48&subd=oncologicallyspeaking&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feet of clay</title>
		<link>http://oncologicallyspeaking.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/feet-of-clay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopeful oncologist</dc:creator>
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As a medical oncologist, one rapidly becomes accustomed to the seemingly endless spin generated around new drugs. These drugs are hailed as &#8216;breakthroughs&#8217;, &#8216;potential cures&#8217; and more. The buzzword in the last ten years has been &#8216;targeted therapy&#8217;, where new monoclonal antibodies and small molecule inhibitors are breathlessly rolled out at each year&#8217;s ASCO (American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncologicallyspeaking.wordpress.com&blog=3991975&post=39&subd=oncologicallyspeaking&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There are no secrets between us</title>
		<link>http://oncologicallyspeaking.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/there-are-no-secrets-between-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopeful oncologist</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Don&#8217;t tell her.&#8221;
The old widow with incurable cancer had been hustled out of the room by her other children, leaving her eldest daughter, whose eyes were hard and flat. The next few minutes are usually quite easy to anticipate: &#8216;The patient is a very pessimistic person&#8217;; &#8216;I want her to keep her fighting spirit&#8217;; &#8216;I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncologicallyspeaking.wordpress.com&blog=3991975&post=25&subd=oncologicallyspeaking&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Little joys</title>
		<link>http://oncologicallyspeaking.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/little-joys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oncologists are often incurable optimists. I suspect that most of us have rather sunny dispositions, contrary to what many colleagues outside this discipline might think. It is true that many of our patients have terminal disease, but certainly the proportion is not as high as one might think. In some oncology outpatient clinics, perhaps over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncologicallyspeaking.wordpress.com&blog=3991975&post=18&subd=oncologicallyspeaking&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The red pill or the blue one?</title>
		<link>http://oncologicallyspeaking.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/the-red-pill-or-the-blue-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hopeful oncologist</dc:creator>
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I break for chemotherapy, and so can you.
It may surprise some, but there is often no definitive standard of care for those individual patients who vary from the Olympian athlete profile of the typical clinical trial participant. This is true of all fields of medicine, from anaesthesiology to trauma care. To therefore discuss the varied [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oncologicallyspeaking.wordpress.com&blog=3991975&post=14&subd=oncologicallyspeaking&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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