Grandad had been sick for a while with extreme fatigue and aching joints. Never one to complain he was diagnosed way too late. The cancer had spread rapidly and he passed in just three weeks. The medication had numbed much of the pain yet kept him pretty lucid.
I remember holding his hand in the hospital and thinking how frail he felt, nothing like the rugged man I remembered who was raised in Hell’s Kitchen and went on to become a longshoreman on Manhattan’s west side. If only we had known more earlier on I thought.
To eradicate the second leading cause of death in America, the National Cancer Institute spends billions each year to fund the finest research institutions in the world. As educators, are you making sure the most recent scientific findings are being made known to the public?
The Podcast portion of your iTunes library will now have access to hours of content from the some of the highest rated programs on television (minus commercials) to be played and re-played whenever you like. One of my favorite vodcasts is PBS’s Judah Folkman story: the thrilling saga of a Harvard researcher who figured out a way to literally strangle tumors and single-handedly save millions of lives.
Now that you’re an expert, you can begin tomorrow’s lesson with: “Good morning class. Please take out your iPods.”
