Linda's 72nd.

Linda on her 7th birthday

August 30, 1952

Today would have been Linda’s 72^nd birthday.  She is no longer here, of course, but the disease that killed her – ovarian cancer –  still is, and is as cruel and implacable as ever.  Some little progress toward eliminating it has been made in the years since Linda’s death, but not nearly enough.  Now, however, with many  promising results emerging from multiple experiments in immunotherapy,  I  taste blood in the water!  If you want to join me in being in on the kill, please do so through Linda’s Fred Hutch web page:

http://getinvolved.fhcrc.org/site/TR?px=1148821&fr_id=1573&pg=personal

Think of it as a birthday present, to one of the most lovely people any of us has ever known.

BLOGGER HIATUS CONTINUES

Linda in Sedbergh, Cumbria, UK

I am back from England and ready to confront real life once again.  Unfortunately, I returned with a severely damaged rotator mechanism which intermittently turns my right shoulder into a useless source of pain and distraction.  That, plus the fact that I am preparing to “downsize” (= move to a smaller house with no stairs, but also no view) means that there will continue to be a hiatus in my string of blogs.  For how long, I do not know.

But in the meantime, read the following interesting article.  It appears that there are so many therapies that require clinical trials (in immunotherapy and personalized medicine) that there is a critical shortage of patients!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/health/cancer-drug-trials-encounter-a-problem-too-few-patients.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share