This is a posting from an alternative email list that I'm on:  
"Hi!  Here is an editorial today from the New York Times that is a perfect
analogy for what has been wrong with the drug companies.  If the drug companies
sat on a way to unclog the arteries,  the editorial writers want ...

Bye, y'all.  I am not dead or dying, but moving.  First I will be escorting
my Alzheimer's-raddled mother to her new nursing home.  Then  I am back in
Honolulu for a few days to finish all the house sales business.  Then I
move to the Big Island.  As my aunt and I plan on going in ...

Some of you will remember that my wife, Sharon,  recurred two years ago with
metastases to her brain and lung.  She has had WBR and SRS along with one
neurosurgery this past January.  She is currently on a regimen of weekly
Herceptin and Navelbine.  Her brain disease seems stable ...

Hello group members,
My name is John, and as a student at Champlain College, in Burlington,
VT, I am conducting two surveys for project purposes.
The first is a survey aimed at patients with the purpose of analyzing

I am trying to find out if anyone knows anything about bone cancer and how
it can shrink a person's height
bama52@otelco.net

Microsoft User
this is the latest version of security update, the
"November 2003, Cumulative Patch" update which eliminates
all known security vulnerabilities affecting

I was wondering if there was a computer program like SET@HOME for finding a
cure for cancer?

Great new discovery ! Mutated maggots only eat cancer!

Anyone know of any freely-available, searchable, cancer pathology databases
(generic or breast cancer specific)?  I'd like to be able to perform queries
based on certain characteristics, such as BRCA1 mutations, P53
overexpression, etc.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and traditionally our contribution
is to have a "get to know each other" session.  So let's all tell a little
about ourselves and our histories.
Some of the regular posters have biographical web pages at

My sister has Stage IV bc with mets to the spine. She just finished chemo
(six cycles of Taxotere plus A/C) and will be having bilateral mastectomies
in the next month or so. (No reconstruction because she'll be having
radiation and the doctor says it would "shrivel 'em like raisins ...

I am sitting here typing this with some difficulty.  I am not dizzy, but am
experiencing some balance difficulties as I sit here.  I walked like a
stumbling drunk to get to the computer.   Yesterday morning it was there only
after I had gotten up from a supine position and/or then ...

Hi,  I posted here a couple of days ago about insensitive people.  I
want to thank all of you for your responses.
Today I received a fax report of a MRI I had done this past Sunday.  I
have an appointment tomorrow morning with my oncologist and will bring

My mother had her first TX. 3 weeks ago of  Adriamycin and Cytoxen.  The two
weeks following the treatment were horrible for her.  Her white count
bottomed out, had to have a blood transfusion, Neupogen injections for a
week, developed mouth sores and was too weak to get out of bed ...

Hey gang, I'm new to this NG.  My mom was recently diagnosed with
Infiltrating Ductal Carcinoma.  There are two tumors in her right breast,
above and away from the nipple (which the doc said is very good news).  The
larger of the two (pea size) is in-situ.  She is scheduled for a ...