Randy Pausch finally succumbed to pancreatic cancer. If you missed the video of his lecture, you can catch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Quoted: "But we don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well," said Dr. Pausch, who urged the graduates to find ...

Don, the initial investor in Blue Dot, has passed away today, after fighting cancer for over a year. All the while, he has opened up his life on his blog. Almost 500 posts recount the high and low times of his struggle to beat his cancer.

He fought so hard, and still found much in life to appreciate.

We had only spoken a few times, but he impressed me as a very astute and caring man.

I'll miss you, Don.
http://faves.com/users/don

I just heard this about my friend Ross Hunter. His aggressive cancer treatment is leaving him so radioactive that he must remain in a special lead-lined room for 10-12 days, and in the hospital for 4 weeks. Should be home by September, but still need several months for his immune system to recover.

Ross is a fighter; I'm not surprised he's doing this aggressive treatment.

Quoted: Ross Hunter, a state lawmaker from Medina, is in isolation in a lead-lined hospital room. It's all part of a unique treatment for a cancer that's targeting his immune system.

I did a search on "elegans" in the Fred Hutch faculty directory - you can see the principal researchers that are using this worm as a model to study cancer, metabolism, and development.

Hits include Roth, Van Gilst, and Buck.

Dr. Syrjala is studying the long term health effects of cancer treatment. Here clinic studies are looking at survivors well past the 5 year mark. She is finding higher incidence of obeisity, and muscular or joint pain.

She is trying to determine if there is a biolgical cause, or if other factors are at work (including the possiblity that people that have undergone cancer treatments lead a more sedentary life style than the general population).