Today’s oncologist appointment was cheery.  We went over my CT scan and MRI from last Friday and things are looking pretty good again.  The best news is that the one remaining brain lesion is significantly smaller (how significantly, I will leave up to those of you who can calculate the volume of an irregular ovoid […]

This book came out of a qualitative research project/dissertation by a psychologist who got interested in cancer patients with unexpectedly good outcomes–either remissions or many more  years of survival than expected.  She interviewed lots of people about what they did to enable their “radical remissions”–and despite these sometimes being called “spontaneous remissions,” they don’t seem […]