Cancer blog."Today, I am feeling Saturday-after-a-week-of-radiation weary. I am also feeling gratitude. I'm grateful for glimpses of grace on city streets and beneath red maples red maple see acerrubrum. . Grateful for feeling a little better this week than last. Glad that the finalized See finalization. treatment schedule allows for a trip home before the summer ends." So goes an entry on Rev. David Giuliano's blog (Web diary) dated July 21, 2007. Since May, the moderator of the United Church of Canada The Moderator of the United Church of Canada is the presiding leader of the United Church of Canada, Canada's largest Protestant denomination. The church is highly decentralized and non-dogmatic and the moderator has only limited power. , has been blogging about his battle with cancer, offering not just a window into the effects of the disease but of faith in a time of struggle. The blog, called The Valley of Shadows, can be accessed at www.united-church.ca. Mr. Giuliano had surgeries in the past to remove what were thought to be benign tumours Noun 1. benign tumour - a tumor that is not cancerous benign tumor, nonmalignant neoplasm, nonmalignant tumor, nonmalignant tumour neoplasm, tumor, tumour - an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose on his forehead. But last year, he wrote, on the night he was installed as the new leader of the United Church, he had felt another tumour tumour or neoplasm Mass of abnormal tissue that arises from normal cells, has no useful function, and tends to grow. Cell abnormalities may include increased size or number or loss of characteristics that differentiate their tissue of origin. . Doctors later diagnosed them as malignant. The tumour has since been removed. Staff |
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