https://paulnystrom.com/tags/cancer/Recent content in Cancer on Paul NystromHugoen-usFri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://paulnystrom.com/posts/cancer-as-a-metabolic-disease/Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://paulnystrom.com/posts/cancer-as-a-metabolic-disease/<p>If cancer is only a genetic disease, as we’ve often been told, then patients have no agency. What good does it do to take control of your life? Why fight?</p> <p>Fighting is what makes us human: enduring hardship, enduring suffering, and having the agency to say, “I will not die today.” It’s a cheesy line from a long-lost Leonardo DiCaprio movie set on a deserted island, where he’s telling a tall tale about facing a shark. (It turns out it was just a baby shark.) But the point remains.</p>https://paulnystrom.com/posts/new-uterine-cancer/Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://paulnystrom.com/posts/new-uterine-cancer/<p>Looking at vaginas in the ER is not something that appeals to me, especially when they are 73 years old. I had a woman last night who had some sort of drainage and bleeding from her perineal area. She could not tell exactly where it was coming from. An external exam showed what appeared to be vaginal bleeding. The only problem was that she was decades past her last period, and postmenopausal bleeding is often related to some sort of gynecologic cancer.</p>