READING ROOM: TIME Magazine Article (June 13, 2011)

PhillieG
PhillieG Member Posts: 4,866 Member
in Colorectal Cancer #1
Dr Oz has an article in the current issue of TIME that deals with his discovery of polyps in his colon. Pretty interesting reading. They devoted a section of the issue to cancer. I haven't read it all (yet).
WARNING
Take the stats with a grain of salt!
;-)

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  • allmost60
    allmost60 Member Posts: 3,178 Member
    #2
    Thanks
    Thanks for sharing this. I have family members dragging their feet with getting long over-due colonoscopies. I printed copies of this and will be mailing one to each of my stubborn loved ones. Thanks again...Sue (FNHL-2-3A-6/10)
  • Sundanceh
    Sundanceh Member Posts: 4,392 Member
    #3
    Thx Phil:)
    If he thinks he's "enlightened" now, he should come here and read all of "our articles."

    He got a good scare, but he didn't get "the taste."

    Thanks for the read, Phil. You think I can outwrite this guy? :)

    -Craig
  • pepebcn
    pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member
    #4
    Sundanceh said:

    Thx Phil:)
    If he thinks he's "enlightened" now, he should come here and read all of "our articles."

    He got a good scare, but he didn't get "the taste."

    Thanks for the read, Phil. You think I can outwrite this guy? :)

    -Craig

    Like your comment Craig!
    Thks for the post Phil.
  • mukamom
    mukamom Member Posts: 402
    #5
    pepebcn said:

    Like your comment Craig!
    Thks for the post Phil.

    Back in Sept 2010
    People mag ran an article on Dr Oz and his colonoscopy.....I really had to hunt for the exact quote, but I found it: "A few more years and it becomes this big mass that goes through the wall of the intestine and into the liver. By the time you find it, you're a goner." What kind of attitude is that for a doctor??? Pretty innacurate and insensitive.

    He is not one of my favorite peeps

    Angela
  • PhillieG
    PhillieG Member Posts: 4,866 Member
    #6
    Sundanceh said:

    Thx Phil:)
    If he thinks he's "enlightened" now, he should come here and read all of "our articles."

    He got a good scare, but he didn't get "the taste."

    Thanks for the read, Phil. You think I can outwrite this guy? :)

    -Craig

    Craig
    You could "bury" this guy...
    Tell Dr. Oz he's not in Kansas anymore!
    ;-)

    I haven't read the whole magazine (thank goodness in a way for colon cancer, I do much of my reading in the library (i.e. bathroom)) but I saw they had a piece on the "refuseniks" as the call them. That's to say those who refuse chemo. I have not yet seen or read anything about those who take the TCM or other alternatives. It is of course, skewed to some extent but overall many of us are here who if we had been diagnosed 15 years ago might not be here. Who knows???
    (The Shadow knows...)
    -p
  • PGLGreg
    PGLGreg Member Posts: 731
    #7
    CC on Oz
    There is also a thread of discussion about this at the Colon Club:
    http://coloncancersupport.colonclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23189&sid=2f11a345828a354cdb2e0d60a57d66d0

    --Greg
  • maglets
    maglets Member Posts: 2,576 Member
    #8
    PhillieG said:

    Craig
    You could "bury" this guy...
    Tell Dr. Oz he's not in Kansas anymore!
    ;-)

    I haven't read the whole magazine (thank goodness in a way for colon cancer, I do much of my reading in the library (i.e. bathroom)) but I saw they had a piece on the "refuseniks" as the call them. That's to say those who refuse chemo. I have not yet seen or read anything about those who take the TCM or other alternatives. It is of course, skewed to some extent but overall many of us are here who if we had been diagnosed 15 years ago might not be here. Who knows???
    (The Shadow knows...)
    -p

    thanks Philly
    thanks darling boy.....

    I prolly won't read it....sometimes the celebrity slant on things just gets me down

    I remember seeing a piece on CBC tely about a famous doctor in Toronto who developed breast cancer.....she had the best docs the best oncs the best everything including makeup artists on the day of the interview. she then proceeded to tell us that chemo is hard and "not for wimps"

    jeezzzzz.....really????? all these six years i thought I was just having a walk in the park.....NOT!!!

    yup the Shadow knows for sure.....

    good to see you

    mags
  • Buckwirth
    Buckwirth Member Posts: 1,258 Member
    #9
    PhillieG said:

    Craig
    You could "bury" this guy...
    Tell Dr. Oz he's not in Kansas anymore!
    ;-)

    I haven't read the whole magazine (thank goodness in a way for colon cancer, I do much of my reading in the library (i.e. bathroom)) but I saw they had a piece on the "refuseniks" as the call them. That's to say those who refuse chemo. I have not yet seen or read anything about those who take the TCM or other alternatives. It is of course, skewed to some extent but overall many of us are here who if we had been diagnosed 15 years ago might not be here. Who knows???
    (The Shadow knows...)
    -p

    Link
    Refuseniks

    This one is actually pretty good (unlike the OZ article, which I find unnecessarily fear mongering).

    Adjuvant therapy can have value, but I have always believed that it should entail a blunt conversation with the Oncologist about what that value actually is. It may not be right for everyone.

    Of course, easy for me to say, as adjuvant therapy has never been a choice for me...
  • pete43lost_at_sea
    pete43lost_at_sea Member Posts: 3,900 Member
    #10
    i like mr oz better than doctor oz
    a good read.
    hugs,
    pete

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