The Oncology Underground
Hans CasteelsWelcome to Dispatch from the Oncology Underground. Prostate cancer, medical absurdity, and the slow-motion collapse of dignity, served with a side of dark humour and the occasional tofu recipe.
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My Wife Speaks Italian. Unfortunately, She Doesn’t Need Words.
My wife Sharon is a New Jersey Italian chick, which is a very specific North American species of Italian that actual Italians occasionally encounter with the same puzzled expression Belgians reserve for Americans who announce they are Belgi...
The Hierarchy of Suffering
As someone living with prostate cancer, I’ve quietly listened to dozens of cancer support groups over the past year. Mostly I listen. Once you’ve been diagnosed yourself, you discover that cancer has its own language, its own etiquette and,...
The Experts Are Still Debating. Your Cancer Isn’t. Britain Says Wait. Australia Says Test. Your Prostate Says Good Luck. How Are Men Supposed to Know When the Experts Don’t?
There comes a moment in every sophisticated civilization when a man approaching fifty should apparently stop whatever he is doing, locate an atlas and determine what his prostate believes about international borders. If he is standing in Au...
Update 3: The Oncology Underground Dictionary of Words That Should Be Banned in Cancerverse.
Cancer comes with its own language. Nobody warns you about this. You expect scans, needles, waiting rooms, radiation machines and physicians who can pronounce pharmaceuticals containing more syllables than the Belgian national anthem....
The Oncology Dictionary Updated, Part Two: “Well Tolerated” and "Bothersome"
One of the unexpected pleasures of writing these essays is discovering readers who are every bit as irritated by language as I am. That is comforting. Civilization survives because somewhere, someone is reading a perfectly respectable sente...
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Survived cancer, marriage, and the healthcare system. Barely. Now I write about life’s side effects: insomnia, irony, and misplaced optimism. It’s not inspirational; it’s just what happens when sarcasm outlives shame.
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