Linda, after an exhausting five mile, steeply uphill hike
Why she didn't divorce me I'll never know
Loma Linda is
a town in what I regard as a conspicuously unpleasant patch of Southern
California: near San Bernadino, Riverside, Colton, Redlands, etc. I grew up in that area and, as a kid, I
remember it as a pleasant land of small towns surrounded by citrus orchards,
rimed by beautiful mountains, and enjoying fresh air and sunshine. Now, of course, it has evolved into a land of
chronically smog-plagued lower middle class housing developments, connected by
freeways that roar day and night. Such
is Californian progress, I guess: glad I live up here.
Anyway, Loma
Linda has a university. It was founded
by, and is supervised by, the Seventh Day Adventist Church. I tend to be skeptical of universities that
are closely tied to religious bodies, but Loma Linda University seems to be totally
legit. (I once ran into one of their
geology field trips. The kids were
bright, knowledgeable – and agreed that the earth is a lot more than 6,700
years old.)
Loma Linda
University has a medical school that is quite highly regarded. They do a lot of cancer research; the (SCCA)
oncologist who treated Linda was active there for a time. The Loma Linda cancer clinic has just produced
the video transcribed below, and you should watch it. It is highly generalized but quite useful nonetheless. It covers cancer in general but does mention
breast and ovarian. Go to it.
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