What Could The Next Decade Bring?

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death Prostate cancers can often grow too slowly to threaten a man’s life. For this reason, many men who have early disease and do not carry a mutation linked to cancer would normally just be watched closely by clinicians, asContinue reading “What Could The Next Decade Bring?”

Capitalism

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. Its 80,000 BC You are Immortal. The world (the Earth) is Frozen in an Ice Age. You decide to save $10,000 every day, never spending a cent. 82,021 years later, Christmas 2021. You would still not have as muchContinue reading “Capitalism”

Checkpoint Immunotherapy

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. Improving Cell Therapies by Characterizing Our Immune Arsenal Associate Professor of Innovation in UPenn’s Department of Bioengineering, Dr. Jiang seeks to characterize the incredibly diverse T cell repertoires in patients, which make up a crucial component of our immuneContinue reading “Checkpoint Immunotherapy”

Drums Over The Mersey

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death In 1985 Liverpool did a 36 hour Drumathon Concert – Drums Over the Mersey, the second such event, the first being a mere 24 Hours, in aid of Alderhey Children’s Hospital, 1983. Both concerts were organised by a localContinue reading “Drums Over The Mersey”

Two Tribes

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. I hate football ‘International’ breaks. The suspension of Premier League fixtures for World Cup, European Championship qualifier fixtures. I especially hate breaks to accommodate international friendly’s, essentially pointless fixtures in order for FIFA, UEFA et. al. to make money.Continue reading “Two Tribes”

FIGHT

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. Fight for treatment. Fight for life. With waiting lists for NHS treatment currently at a record breaking high 6,000,000+ and counting, waiting for treatment. To receive a Cancer Diagnosis is even more alarming in those conditions. I have spokeContinue reading “FIGHT”

Suicide

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. In the UK A man dan dies every 45 minutes from Prostate Cancer. According to Cancer Research UK, there are over 164,000 cancer deaths in the UK each year, which is about 450 each day. 1 in 2 people (in theContinue reading “Suicide”

Antimatter £42.5 trillion a Gram

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. What is humanity’s most valuable commodity? So precious that you are unable to buy more? Once lost, can never be replenished? Yet, is also the commodity that we take most for granted and waste most often? Can we compareContinue reading “Antimatter £42.5 trillion a Gram”

Go Early or Delay?

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. Prostate cancer is a leading cause of cancer death in men. Best case for men with advanced (metastatic) prostate cancer is ten years tops. Treatment goals for men with advanced prostate cancer include prolonging survival, preventing or delaying symptomsContinue reading “Go Early or Delay?”

The Doorway Effect

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. Why does walking through doorways make us forget? Forgetting why you entered a room is called the “Doorway Effect”, and it may reveal as much about the strengths of human memory, as it does the weaknesses. We’ve all doneContinue reading “The Doorway Effect”