Tag: remission

Radical Remissions: Cancer Survivors Who Defy the Odds

Editor’s Note: Roxanne Nelson is a freelance journalist for Medscape Oncology. This blog post first appeared July 8, 2014 Medscape Oncology which owns the copyright to the post. By Roxanne Nelson According to statistics, Lola Baltzell should have died 3 years ago. Instead, she celebrated the fifth anniversary of her diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer…

Father’s Day, A Darn Good Day

Editor’s Note: A four year survivor of Stage 3 non-Hodgkins lymphoma, Brian T. Ross was recently named the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society 2012 Man of The Year for having raised over $120,000 for leukemia and lymphoma research. His journal with and beyond cancer is chronicled on cancerforward.org. To read more: http://bit.ly/M6cy20 Father’s Day in 2008…