Cancer Blog
- Dr. Robert Nagourney -

There is a joke about a traveling salesman who finds himself lost in the countryside and stops a farmer to ask directions to the highway....

Among Michelangelo's most famous sculptures are the 'Prisoners” that depict human forms awakening from their marble entrapment. The...

This is the first blog I have penned since COVID-19 swept through the country. So troubling were the consequences of the pandemic that I...

On June 5, 2019, I received a telephone call from Des Moines, Iowa from a 60-year-old gentleman who had presented to medical attention...

I was recently asked by a surgical colleague to meet a patient. This 58-year-old woman had presented two years earlier with sigmoid colon...

In 2008, I met a delightful 88-year-old patient accompanied by her daughter. The patient had been successfully treated for advanced...

Of the one million new breast cancer patients diagnosed each year worldwide, approximately 170,000 of these cases are triple negative....

Humans evolved around their food supply. The foods we eat, the herbs we consume, our sources of nutrition, indeed everything that makes...

Humans evolved around their food supply. The foods we eat, the herbs we consume, our sources of nutrition, indeed everything that makes...

Mantle zone lymphoma represents approximately 6% of all non-Hodgkin lymphomas diagnosed in the US each year. It is named for the region...

Mantle zone lymphoma represents approximately 6% of all non-Hodgkin lymphomas diagnosed in the US each year. It is named for the region...

March is colorectal cancer awareness month. Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer for both men and women in the US with...

A recent editorial entitled "More Proof That Less Chemo is Best in Elderly Colorectal Cancer Patients" (David Kerr, Medscape, January 24,...

With the rapid rise of cancer, medical oncologists sometimes find themselves treating family members, friends or neighbors. In 2008, the...

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth” Sherlock Holmes The Sign of the Four...

In early September of 2018, I consulted with a 51-year-old patient with heavily pre-treated, extremely advanced metastatic breast cancer....

A report by French investigators has raised concern regarding the broad application of immunotherapy in lung cancer. Checkpoint...

Every day, we hear of another breakthrough using gene testing and DNA to identify a new target, new treatment, new combination or novel...

There are many reasons why medical care costs continue to spiral out of control. Some of these are systemic like an aging population,...

On February 5th, 2018 I was asked to consult on a 53-year-old patient who was admitted to the hospital with a one month’s history of low...