“I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.” —Christopher Hitchens
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Topic of Cancer by Christopher Hitchens
One fine June day, the author is launching his best-selling memoir, Hitch-22. The next, he’s throwing up backstage at The Daily Show, in a brief bout of denial, before entering the unfamiliar country—with its egalitarian spirit, martial metaphors, and hard bargains of people who have cancer.
continue reading… vanityfair
hang-on Hitch, hang-on
Christopher Hitchens is undergoing chemotherapy for esophageal cancer
Loneliness makes cancer ‘more likely and deadly’
Fresh evidence adds weight to suggestions that loneliness makes cancer both more likely and deadly.
Work in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science shows social isolation tips the odds in favour of aggressive cancer growth.
Rodents kept alone developed more tumours - and tumours of a more deadly type - than rats living as a group.
The researchers put it down to stress and say the same may well be true in humans.
continue reading… bbc
