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NIH Calculates Hundreds of Billions of Payments for Cancer Treatment – Wouldn’t It Be Be
Why invest in science? Among other things, it may well help reduce soaring costs for cancer that will be arriving as we collectively pay...

Kirk Hartley
Jan 17, 20114 min read
Pro Bono Advocacy Opportunities for Persons with Cancer
And so a new year arrives, with new opportunities. For lawyers interested in new pro bono advocacy for 2014, how about assisting persons...

Kirk Hartley
Jan 1, 20111 min read
Erionite, Mesothelioma and North Dakota – Lessons from Turkey’s “Cancer Villages&#
How is North Dakota like Turkey ? Both areas include a mineral known as erionite. That’s noteworthy because certain Turkish villages are...

Kirk Hartley
Dec 15, 20101 min read
Lloyds Report on Cell Phone Cancer Risks
Lloyds issued this November 10, 2010 report on cell phone risks. The summary is obviously written to support an insurance industry view...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 27, 20101 min read
Make a Difference – Advocacy for Cancer Rights – October 8, 2010 – Los Angeles 
Advocacy is growing for myriad aspects of the cancer crisis. Be an advocate for change by learning more about advocating for the rights...

Kirk Hartley
Sep 29, 20101 min read


Every 10 Minutes, Someone in the US Dies from a Blood Cancer …..
The top two lines in the chart tell terrible stories. Inexorably climbing cancer rates for childhood cancers and non-Hodgkins lymphomas....

Kirk Hartley
Sep 26, 20103 min read
The Global Costs of Cancer – Think $1.5 Trillion, or More, Every Year; The Litigation Industry
The players in the the litigation industry inevitably pay attention to large numbers. In that vein, and in the broader social sense,...

Kirk Hartley
Sep 7, 20102 min read
Second Hand Smoke Confirmed to Cause Genetic Changes in the Fetus
Here’s some information that has implications for the roles of futures representatives for class action. The subject in general is...

Kirk Hartley
Jul 3, 20101 min read


CLRC Cancer Rights Conference 2010 – Proud to Be a Sponsor
4% of Americans are cancer survivors. That’s well over 10 million people. The numbers are the net result of an annual US toll of 1.5...

Kirk Hartley
Jun 14, 20103 min read
New Science – Sequencing Genomes of 600 Children With Cancer – ” …the larges
From the January 26, 2010 NCI Cancer Bulletin is a story that provides the latest example of the dawning age of new science brought...

Kirk Hartley
Jan 26, 20105 min read
Cancer – – More Must Be Done – – Stark Reminders of the Human Toll
90,000 people per year travel to Houston’s MD Anderson Cancer Center for treatment. Many are children. Most will not find a cure. Some...

Kirk Hartley
Oct 26, 20093 min read
More from NYT/ Ms. Kolata on Why Our Nation Fails to Find Multiple Ways to Manage or Cure Cancer
Ms. Gina Kolata is back with another important but depressing New York Times article on the failure of our national policy for addressing...

Kirk Hartley
Jun 27, 20093 min read
FELA Plaintiffs Must Prove A Genuine and Serious Fear of Cancer
In a win for defendants in general and some asbestos defendants in particular, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a June 1, 2009 per curiam...

Kirk Hartley
Jun 11, 20091 min read
Science, Cancer and Law – New Studies Link Genes and Lung Cancer
Science moves much faster than does “the law,” and the changes in science over time will have a profound impact on the framing and...

Kirk Hartley
Apr 9, 20083 min read
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