Finding Kindness and Introspection in ‘Half Empty,’ a Book of Essays by David Rakoff
the words we use matter enormously, not just in clinical outcomes, but in how people with cancer feel about the decisions they’ve made, years later.
Reading and Hearing ‘Bang the Drum Slowly’
This slim 1956 novel by Mark Harris, oddly elegant in its tenderness and guyish language, resonates today.
FDA Approves Adcetris for Refractory Hodgkin’s Disease and a Rare T-Cell Lymphoma
Late Friday afternoon, the FDA announced its approval, upon accelerated review, of a new drug, Adcetris (brentuximab) for patients with Hodgkin’s lymphoma that has relapsed after bone marrow transplant and for some patients with T-cell anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). This interests me for a lot of reasons, among them that I used to work in the field of lymphoma immunology […]