AvatarMatt BlairAvatarAvatarThe Day I Found Out My Life Was Hanging by a ThreadWIRED - Matt BenckeMatt Bencke thought he’d thrown out his back. Then he received the most sobering news of his life. It started while I was on a Hawaiian vacation in …
AvatarMatt BlairAvatarAvatarHow to Fight Cancer (When Cancer Fights Back)verified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Ed YongUnderstanding how the disease evolves is the key to stopping it. In early 2014, Laura Brealey was visiting her daughters in Singapore when she slipped on a marble floor and cracked her hip. She had it replaced, but in the process, the surgeons noticed that her breathing sounded odd, and told her to …
AvatarMatt BlairFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoHow to Solve Oncology’s Labor Crisisnautil.us - David KoronesI watched a man die today. We were “rounding” when we were summoned to his room. He was struggling to breathe, and we knew that the breaths he was …
AvatarMatt BlairAvatarAvatarAs I Lay DyingMedium - Ted RheingoldEmergency room MD: “You’re cancelling your Hawaii trip. Scans show a number of lumps on your organs. We’re going to check you into the hospital …
AvatarMatt BlairAvatarAvatarCancer Rates Are Dropping — But Not In Rural Appalachiaverified_publisherFiveThirtyEight - Lyndsey GilpinJust over a year ago, Natasha Lucas, an agent for the University of Kentucky’s Owsley County Extension Office, needed a local lung cancer survivor to …
AvatarMatt BlairAvatarAvatarFighting Cancer's Crisis of Confidence, One Study at a TimeWIRED - Megan MolteniThe Reproducibility Project announces its initial cancer study results today. Every year the US government spends $5 billion on cancer research. …
AvatarMatt BlairAvatarAvatarIn Cancer Trials, Minorities Face Extra Hurdles (Published 2016)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Denise GradyLike a man on a flying trapeze, K.T. Jones has leapt from one medical study to another during his 15-year struggle with cancer, and he has no doubt that the experimental treatments he has received have saved his life. Mr. Jones, 45, has an aggressive type of Hodgkin’s lymphoma that resists the usual …
AvatarMatt BlairAvatarAvatarThe Cancer LotteryMIT Technology Review - Stephen S. HallIn her 30-year battle with breast cancer, Carmen Teixidor thought she had experienced every treatment doctors could hurl at the disease. She had …
AvatarMatt BlairAvatarAvatarMy Friend Samverified_publisherThe New Yorker - Curtis SittenfeldIf you’re trying to tell the story of a friendship, do you start when the two of you met? For Sam and me, that was in the late summer of 1996, after we became co-editors of the arts and entertainment section of our university’s student newspaper. Do you start with the beginning of your friend’s …
Haunting. Can't wait until chemotherapy is a thing of the past.AvatarMatt BlairAvatarAvatarImmune System and Spirit Kept Cancer at Bay for a Year (Published 2016)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Matt RichtelI recently chronicled the story of Jason Greenstein and his battle against cancer. He was at the vanguard of a new kind of treatment that unleashes the immune system to fight the disease as it does infections caused by viruses and bacteria. But his reprieve lasted just over a year. Jason died last …
AvatarMatt BlairAvatarAvatarImmunotherapy Offers Hope to a Cancer Patient, but No Certainty (Published 2016)verified_publisherThe New York Times - Matt RichtelDENVER — A cancer patient nicknamed the Steel Bull got his death sentence on a gloomy March Wednesday in 2015. He was 47, his given name Jason Greenstein, but he had earned the moniker from his oncologist for his stubborn will during more than four years of brutal chemotherapy and radiation …
AvatarMatt BlairMagazineSo. I Have cancerAvatarCurated byTinu Abayomi-PaulAbout my journey living with CLL, a chronic form of Lymphoma. I also flip first person accounts and give tips to caregivers.