To Test or Not to Test? To Treat or Wait and See?"My back hurts." For Mitchell Benson ’77, chair of urology at P&S, those three words are a touchstone. Twenty years ago, before the use of PSA screening for prostate cancer became routine, back pain was a common complaint of men walking in the door… May 01 13May 01, 2013Article at Columbia Medicine
In Breast Cancer, There Is a Single Agenda: Stay AliveIt is the middle of April 2006, and I am seated on an examining table on the third floor of the New York University Clinical Cancer Center, waiting to hear about my future. My presence here was requested in the strongest possible terms because… Oct 31 06October 31, 2006Article at The New York Times
Medicine Gets PersonalA patient sits in a waiting room at Columbia’s Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, referred to Columbia based on reported symptoms and a recent blood test. His nascent chart includes his age, birthplace, current medications, profession,… May 30 14May 30, 2014Article at Columbia Medicine
