Do We Have More Breast Cancer Here?
It began simply enough. An inquisitive colleague asked me if we have more breast cancer in our area than elsewhere. I had been asked this before, and I still did not know. But I should know. The \”Big Three\” cancers in the US are prostate, lung, and colorectal for males and breast, lung and colorectal […]
A Game of Chance…Not Entirely
Earlier this month the New York Times ran an article titled “Cancer’s Random Assault.” It described the results of a study published in Science Magazine that proposes the majority of cancer can be chalked up to random bad luck. The authors of the study; Dr. Christian Tomasetti, a mathematician, and Dr. Bert Vogelstein of John […]
