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	<title>R.A. Bloch Cancer Foundation &#187; Oncologist</title>
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	<description>R. A. Bloch Cancer Foundation - dedicated to cancer support - helping the next person diagnosed beat cancer. Cancer Hotline survivor matching, match you with a survivor of the exact same kind of cancer. Free books. Up to date list of cancer support organizations and multi-disciplinary second opinion panels. Cancer check list. Positive mental attitude quiz. Survivor parks.</description>
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		<title>Multidisciplinary second opinion centers</title>
		<link>http://blochcancer.org/2009/multidisciplinary-second-opinion-centers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[2nd Opinions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many cancer patients are dying, not because treatments are not available, but because the initial physician failed to offer the best possible treatment. Cancer is an unusual disease for many reasons &#8211; if you don&#8217;t treat it properly the first time, often there is no second chance because cancer grows geometrically. Often an initial treatment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics vs Ego</title>
		<link>http://blochcancer.org/2009/ethics-vs-ego/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard and Annette Bloch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aggressive Treatment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breast Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer Physician]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Complete Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oncologists have the ability to have a great influence on many lives. They can sit back and play it safe with no exposure or with a little effort, they can cause many patients and their families to be tremendously benefited psychologically and possibly physically. My niece, in her mid thirties with a small child, was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selecting a Doctor</title>
		<link>http://blochcancer.org/2009/selecting-a-doctor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard and Annette Bloch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cancers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Courage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Favorable Prognosis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hero]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever wonder why some oncologists are so bright and cheerful and optimistic with their patients while others are negative, discouraging and sometimes downright frightening. I call these others, &#8220;Play it safe doctors&#8221;. Their patients very rarely win because the doctor is afraid to take a chance. They want to play a no-lose game! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choices</title>
		<link>http://blochcancer.org/2009/choices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard and Annette Bloch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Attitudes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer Patient]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Desire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Expectancy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oncologist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quality Of Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sympathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Toxic Treatment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have thought how devastating it must be for an oncologist to give a horribly toxic treatment to a seemingly strong patient, totally destroying the quality of their life, only to find it ineffective and watch the patient die. That physician not only has my sympathy, but my admiration, providing the treatment was given with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing the odds</title>
		<link>http://blochcancer.org/2009/increasing-the-odds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard and Annette Bloch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cardiologist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Definitive Results]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harvard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laughter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mental Attitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Drugs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Receptivity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[True Desire]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blochcancer.net/?p=206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It has been felt for many years that there is a relationship between the patient&#8217;s mental attitude and successful cancer treatment. A great deal of effort has been put into scientifically proving this relationship with very little definitive results. There are many anecdotal stories validating the premise but very little substantive proof. Personally, I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency!</title>
		<link>http://blochcancer.org/2009/emergency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard and Annette Bloch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cancer Survivors Park]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chemotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comprehensive Cancer Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cost Containment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inflammatory Breast Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insurance Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lung Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non Small Cell Lung Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oncologist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perfect Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Remission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Cell Lung Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Worse Than Death]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blochcancer.net/?p=200</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For years we have preached to cancer patients to find a qualified oncologist who believed he could successfully treat you. Now, more than ever, those words are vital! Curable individuals are being told, &#8220;There is nothing that can be done&#8221; or &#8220;The treatments are worse than death.&#8221; It is terrible to believe that individuals might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Informed Decision</title>
		<link>http://blochcancer.org/2009/informed-decision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard and Annette Bloch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Decisions]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Diagnosis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Imagination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mistake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mortality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Experience]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blochcancer.net/?p=183</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every cancer patient is entitled to make an informed decision. While it sounds so simple, it is possibly one of the most difficult aspects in getting started in the right direction. Being told that nothing can be done, that surgery is required tomorrow or take these pills and come back in 90 days is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patient Responsibility</title>
		<link>http://blochcancer.org/2009/patient-responsibility/</link>
		<comments>http://blochcancer.org/2009/patient-responsibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard and Annette Bloch</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Deaths]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Harvard Study]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Patient Responsibility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stroke]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In discussing the idea of mandatory second opinions for newly diagnosed cancer patients (www.blastcancer.org) a cancer support organization came to the conclusion that the patient must be responsible for his/her own body in lieu of another Federal or state regulation. That&#8217;s only logical. If I don&#8217;t care that much about my life, why should anyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deciding to take treatments</title>
		<link>http://blochcancer.org/2009/deciding-to-take-treatments/</link>
		<comments>http://blochcancer.org/2009/deciding-to-take-treatments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard and Annette Bloch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Treatments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art Therapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breast Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer Information]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chemotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clinical Protocol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Independent Second Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lung Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oncologist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ovarian Cancer]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blochcancer.net/?p=160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Should I take chemotherapy?&#8221; Lately I have heard this question asked by callers several times. Whether it is by an 80 year old gentleman with slow growing lung cancer, by a 52 year old lady with advanced ovarian cancer or a young lady with breast cancer. The answers, with numerous qualifications, is &#8220;yes&#8221; for three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time is critical</title>
		<link>http://blochcancer.org/2009/time-is-critical/</link>
		<comments>http://blochcancer.org/2009/time-is-critical/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard and Annette Bloch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Treatments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer Cells]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancer Surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cancers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chemotherapy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Critical Factor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Critical Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malignant Cell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medical Radiation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Treatment Of Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tumor Burden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[X Ray]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blochcancer.net/?p=158</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Time is a critical factor in the successful treatment of cancer. Cancer grows geometrically. In other words, 1 billion cancer cells will become 2 billion or 10 billion will become 20 billion in the same length of time it takes 1 cell to become 2. Cancer can not be detected by an x-ray, scan, or [...]]]></description>
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