Falling apart from top to toe
Ok so this is not an overnight thing. As many of you will know it started almost 6 years ago with my soft tissue sarcoma in my calf, then two […]
Category Archives: My Doc
The language of cancer…stop fighting it!
I have always struggled with the language of cancer – other people’s language that is. All that fighting, battling, struggling….Here Simon Jenkins hits the nail on the head and encourages […]
5 years cancer-free: time for a ‘small party’ & Baked Ham
That’s what my surgeon said I should do ‘if’ I reached the five-year mark. Ten years, he said, calls for a ‘big party’. According to the experts I have defied […]
The latest on immunotherapy
This week’s medical update is all about immunotherapy, the ‘miracle cure’ for cancer. As you will see it’s very early days and only works on certain types of tumor – advanced melanoma and kidney and colo-rectal cancer. […]
Butterly dangerous!
Following on from my recent Facbook live interview on cancer and my diet, here is the result of some new research which I wholeheartedly endorse on the dangers of dairy, high fat […]
My one-year hip anniversary
So, finally, after a year I get to meet the consultant surgeon under whose care I was operated on. Except I wasn’t under his care as I never saw him. […]
How to starve cancer – new book that might help late-stage cancers
Check out this new book, recommended by fellow blogger, nutritionist and former breast cancer sufferer now in good recovery, Dawn Waldron. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, […]
Four and half years cancer-free!
Every six months I go and see the Marsden people. This year I was slightly more anxious than normal – ie not very, but a bit – as my sarcoma […]
Update on the ‘best pins in Africa’
‘How are the best pins in Africa?’ This is how my chum Patrick Mavros greets me. I keep telling him they ain’t wot they used to be, one calf-less leg […]
George Monbiot: I have prostate cancer & I am happy
Here’s a shining example of taking control of your illness. Monbiot’s positivity, encapsulated by the English saying, Cheer up it could be worse, will see him through this. We need […]
healthy living with cancer 