What cancer survival really means

I was really taken aback by this explanation of what cancer survival really means. I know that some of you are fighting cancer* or have someone in your lives who is. This may be useful.

xkcd: Lanes

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Check out the rollover --the text which displays when your mouse hovers over the picture-- on the original post for how the picture reflects the stages of breast cancer.

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*Reflecting on this, I think I see a bit better why some say that 'fighting cancer' is the wrong language/metaphor. Though I'm not sure what to use instead. Help me out.

Images from the History of Medicine (NLM)

Just discovered the National Library of Medicine's archive of images. Pretty neat (in a depressing sort of way).
Here's the main site:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/

and here's a link to search results for pain:

Images from the History of Medicine (NLM) - Search Results: All Fields SimilarTo 'Pain'

Healthcare-Associated Infection

This isn't directly about pain. But I thought I'd pass it along.

The Kimberly-Clark Health Care Company has an informational (and of course promotional) website on healthcare associated infections here Patients who want to get a sense of the problem and what they should keep an eye out for may find some of the links useful.

List of Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blogs (Current & Inactive)

Some of you may find this useful:

Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog: *Updated* List of Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blogs (Current & Inactive): "

Bandolier Evidence-Based guides

Turns out my favorite Little Book of Pain (no joke: that's the title) has a bunch of evidence-based reviews of all sorts of pain-related topics. The main site is here:

Here are some examples

Migraine

Pain in general

Other general pain control stuff

Palliative and supportive care

Pain care before, during, and after operations

Dysmenorrhoea (menstrual cramps)

July Pain Carnival

July's Pain-Blog Carnival is up:
http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/261/july-pain-blog-carnival/
Lots of good stuff as usual.

Pics of pain

Check out some pain art: PainExhibit.com

Carnival of PAIN!!!!!

The always excellent and informative How to Cope with Pain carnival for January is up here. Check it out.

Pain-Blog Carnival

The always awesome How To Cope With Pain Blog has this month's pain-blog carnival up:

http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/172/pain-carnival/

Your's truly was too busy working on our job search process to contribute...

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome

I mentioned Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome (RSDS) in an earlier post on the USC event. There's a lot of good information on the syndrome at the Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association website.

Coping with pain

This site (and its blog) has lots of good material for sufferers of chronic pain and their friends/families/et al.

How To Cope With Pain: A guide to coping with pain.

The author's philosopher husband also occasionally contributes some nice posts oriented toward laymen:

http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/51/your-name-isnt-aristotle-youll-still-find-this-info-about-pain-and-your-brain-intriguing/
http://www.howtocopewithpain.org/blog/53/no-one-understands-your-pain-heres-the-philosophical-reason-why/

Balkan et al. on toture

The legal blog Balkanization has compiled a list of all their posts on torture here. Definitely worth checking out.

The Daily Headache: Newsweek on Chronic Pain Research & Treatment

A potentially helpful blog for chronic headache sufferers :
The Daily Headache

Some links

A nice set of posts on pain from the blog the Transparent Eye.

And, in case I haven't linked to them before, check out the blog Psychology of Pain

Trigeminal Neuralgia Links

Some links on Trigeminal Neuralgia (tic douloureux)

Your Complete Guide to TN
TN Support Association
Medline summary

I'm looking for information on deep brain stimulator treatments of TN. Please email me if you have any links/articles/journals that might help.

Another pain blog

Here's a very, very, very good blog on pain:
www.painonline.com
Hope posting this doesn't drive me out of business.
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