When I was at my book signing at Cleveland Clinic last month, I met Bryan Sisk, a young medical student who used to work with Dr. Tuohy (who is developing the first preventive breast cancer vaccine there). Bryan told me how he wrote a book, A Lasting Effect: Reflections on Music and Medicine, about his [...]
As difficult as it was to receive a cancer diagnosis, I always said to myself, “Thank God it was me and not my daughter.” So I can only imagine the turmoil Deirdre Carey experienced when she was told her beloved six-month-old Charlie had an extremely rare form of brain and spinal cancer. Worse yet, Charlie was given a [...]
Paul Falk: He’s all grown up now! Yesterday was chemo day, and I had the pleasure sitting next to Heather, whom I mentioned before. Heather is a two-time survivor – bone cancer at age 13 and now Stage IV breast cancer. She recently raised more than $30,000 from a spinning event she co-hosted and another $30,000 for Susan G. Komen’s Race for [...]
