Dr. Nagourney's Blog

Stage 4 Gastroesophageal Cancer Patient Responds to Novel Cocktail

On June 5, 2019, I received a telephone call from Des Moines, Iowa from a 60-year-old gentleman who had presented to medical attention with an adenocarcinoma of the gastroesophageal junction. Having the capacity to seek medical opinions from...

Are All Colon Cancers Created Equal? Absolutely Not!

I was recently asked by a surgical colleague to meet a patient. This 58-year-old woman had presented two years earlier with...

Overcoming Stage IV Ovarian Cancer: A Life Well-Lived

In 2008, I met a delightful 88-year-old patient accompanied by her daughter. The patient had been successfully treated for...

Treating Stage IV Lung Cancer: “You can’t get there from here.”

There is a joke about a traveling salesman who finds himself lost in the countryside and stops a farmer to ask directions to...

Interstate Oncology: Breast Cancer Patient On the Run

Of the one million new breast cancer patients diagnosed each year worldwide, approximately 170,000 of these cases are triple...

There's Something Sweet About Evolutionary Biology

Humans evolved around their food supply. The foods we eat, the herbs we consume, our sources of nutrition, indeed everything...

For Mantle Zone Lymphoma: What Goes Around Comes Around

Mantle zone lymphoma represents approximately 6% of all non-Hodgkin lymphomas diagnosed in the US each year. It is named for...