Subject: Cancer

• A Short Course in Prison Nicknames

  July 1, 2008

• Missed Diagnosis

  When a doctor makes a rare but horrible mistake, who should bear the scars?

  July 22, 1999

• If David Isberg can beat cancer, why not the prison bureaucracy?

  Medical treatment for prisoners and halfway-house residents can be tough to swallow. Health care inside prison walls can be downright criminal, a situation we’ve chronicled in some detail in our Crime and Punishment Archive. But the care can actually be worse for parolees, since the Colorado Department of Corrections expects them to land jobs with health benefits and cuts off care entirely, while halfway houses don’t do anything to augment the lack of a basic safety net for the jobless.

  November 18, 2008

• Lance Armstrong's Colorado girlfriend is pregnant...without sperm doping!

  Is there anything Lance Armstrong can't do? Not only has the 37-year-old cyclist won the Tour de France a gazillion times, but now CNN is reporting that his steady girlfriend, Anna Hansen, is pregnant without the involvement of medical fertility procedures. Quite a feat for the testicular cancer survivor who had to freeze his sperm to have three children with his now-ex-wife via artificial insemination. In contrast to the celebrities Armstrong has dated since his 2003 divorce - including Shery

  December 23, 2008

• The Case for Safety

  April 6, 2000

• Best Way to Thine Own Scent Be True

  March 29, 2001

• Best TV Anchor

  March 29, 2001

• Best Item Confiscated at DIA

  April 4, 2002

• Best Photography Solo -- Deceased Artist

  March 24, 2005

• Dog Days

  Project RUFFway lends a helping paw.

  April 9, 2009

• Hope for the Holidays

  Function as Fashion raises funds for LUNAFEST.

  December 13, 2007

• Hearty Eats

  The Colorado Rogues take blood seriously.

  October 4, 2007

• Dark Magic

  Chocolate plays well with others.

  October 4, 2007

• Breast Friends

  LUPEC's Breakfast for Boobs raises cash to fight cancer.

  May 10, 2007

• Morgan's Magic

  May 3, 2007

• ' Til Death Do Us Part

  Kirk Rundstrom refuses to go gently into that good night.

  August 31, 2006

• Aztec Sol

  January 12, 2006

• Twisted Plot Twists

  Stories on Stage returns with more forgotten lore.

  October 27, 2005

• Alternating Currents

  Hybrid styles fill the Mizel Center, and pure abstraction stars at Havu.

  October 13, 2005

• Uplifting Charity

  Bras for the Cause raises money for breast cancer

  October 21, 2004

• Giant Steps

  The Global Walker returns to Colorado

  June 24, 2004

• Off Limits

  The dangle angle

  October 30, 2003

• Late Love

  Louie and Ophelia grapples with mature commitment

  October 2, 2003

• Not Doggin' It

  Jonrowe forges ahead in Danskin Triathalon

  July 31, 2003

• Unflinching

  Nomad Theatre's Wit illuminates the dying process.

  June 6, 2002

• Lady Sang the Blues

  Monica Janzen had a great voice, a solid band and a new record. She also had breast cancer.

  December 7, 2000

• Next Stop, Animal Heaven

  Changes knows that pet lovers need closure, too.

  September 21, 2000

• Firing Line

  Former Visotcky employees sound off.

  September 9, 1999

• Night & Day

  October 22 - 28. 1998

  October 22, 1998

• Mind Over Medicine

  Dr. Paul Hamilton refused to let his patients meekly accept their cancer.

  November 14, 1996

• CRITICAL CONDITIONS

  WHEN MEGAN JONES ASKED HER INSURANCE COMPANY TO PAY FOR HER CANCER TREATMENT, SHE FOUND TRUTH WAS AT A PREMIUM.

  January 3, 1996

• A CRUMBLING FOUNDATION

  THE DOCTOR'S IN JAIL AND MOST BOARDMEMBERS HAVE QUIT--BUT BILL COORS VOWS TO PRESS ON.

  December 20, 1995

• THE BODY POLITIC

  December 6, 1995

• HIT PICK

  October 11, 1995

• THE DOCTOR MAY BE OUT

  CHUCK STEVINSON'S DEATH MAY ALTER THE DENVER DREAMS OF HIS CONTROVERSIAL PHYSICIAN.

  March 1, 1995

• BUYING TIME PART II

  November 16, 1994

• BUYING TIME

  November 9, 1994

• COURTING DISASTER

  November 2, 1994

• GETTING TESTY

  A DISPUTE OVER AIDS TESTING ENSNARES A HEALTH OFFICIAL FROM COLORADO SPRINGS.

  July 27, 1994

• TRICK OR TREATMENT

  April 27, 1994

• Off Limits

  Hacks at work

  January 12, 1994

• Pink Hooter cupcake for a cause

  The Candy Girls were systematically working our way around the chocolate shops, bakeries and specialty candy makers of Denver when we stumbled upon Big Fat Cupcake, 129 Adams Street. While the uniquely flavored, award-winning cupcakes drew us in, it was shop-owner Kathleen Nevin's mission to donate 10 percent of her shop's profits to help men and women who have been diagnosed with cancer and can no longer afford to pay their mortgage or rent that really piqued our interest. Turns out, Nevin i

  April 16, 2009

• Do good when Dos Casas returns to Lola

  I'm leaving for a girls weekend in New Orleans on April 30 and hoping to make it out of the Big Easy with no permanent tattoos and both kidneys, so I was trying to stay off the cocktail circuit for the rest of April. But there's that COBG contest I'm judging on April 26, and the April 29 Dos Casas event at Lola that I enjoyed so much last year.For a wild moment, I thought that drinking tequila and gorging on Mexican delights from some of the top chefs in Denver might not be the best way to spend

  April 23, 2009

• Terra Infirma

  Can bone-marrow transplants save breast-cancer patients? There's little middle ground in the debateand lots of uncharted territory.

  May 27, 1999

• Elana Rogers teaches us to stop and smell the roses

  Well wishes are due to Elana Rogers, who was recently diagnosed with IDC breast cancer. Last month, the young singer-songwriter underwent a double masectomy and had four of her sentinel lymph nodes removed. Fortunately, the surgery went well and Rogers now appears to be on her way to making a full recovery. And as tends to happen with even the slightest brush with mortality, Rogers has emerged with a newfound appreciation for the things in life that most of us find mundane. After the jump, we've

  July 7, 2009

• Today's featured event: Local improv artists offer some helping humor at Bovine Metropolis

  If the comedy turns a little dark tonight at the Bovine Metropolis Theater, 1527 Champa Street, it's okay. The 7:30 p.m. benefit performance, A Night of Tumorous Comedy, featuring the Gypsy Cab Company troupe, will focus on three connected monologues by local improv veterans and cancer survivors Sara Alan, Pam Farone and Betsy Vajtay, who will share their stories to raise funds for the Team Sarcoma Initiative, which works to increase awareness of the rare cancer, provides services for its victim

  July 22, 2009

• Village Tavern toasts Breast Cancer Awareness Month with Hope-tini

  ​ During October, Village Tavern ,at 1 West Flatiron Crossing Drive in Broomfield, is marking the 25th anniversary of Breast Cancer Awareness Month by serving up special Hope-tini cocktails to raise money for breast cancer research. "People are definitely interested," says John Davis, Village Tavern bar manager. "It's that time of year where there is a lot of awareness about cancer." The restaurant is donating $2 from the sale of each Hope-tini, made with vodka, Tuaca Italian liqueur,

  October 5, 2009

• Should Lance Armstrong's new team be sponsored by marijuana?

  Lance Armstrong at rest.​Mason Tvert is brilliant at making any subject about marijuana -- but he's really outdone himself this time. In his latest media jeremiad, the head of SAFER (Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation) goes after bicycle racer Lance Armstrong for becoming the new spokesman for Michelob Ultra, a brew that's aimed at "health-minded drinkers" -- because beer is the new wheat germ, right? Tvert's gripe: Beer is more dangerous and "cancer-causing" than his favorite smok

  October 9, 2009

• Orbit Service to release new track on cancer benefit comp

  ​Orbit Service, the experimental/psychedelic pop outfit of Randall Frazier, will be appearing on the upcoming compilation MOM. The disc is a benefit for Beta-lactam Rings Records owner Chris McBeth's mother, who has cancer. "[McBeth and I] have become very close friends over the past few years. His mother was recently diagnosed with stomach cancer, and so he asked a few of his label's artists to contribute tracks for the benefit of his mother," Frazier explains. "I was honored that he ask

  October 9, 2009

• Betcha Jim Spencer loved making this call to the Post

  "And here's another mistake you guys made..."​Back in 2007, the Denver Post's Jim Spencer was downsized right out of his plum metro-columnist's gig -- and months after landing a job as the communication director for the University of Colorado Denver's School of Medicine, he was still publicly lamenting the way he was jettisoned from his beloved career. So imagine his satisfaction when he was able to force the Post to publish a correction about a Wednesday graphic identifying UCD's med scho

  October 15, 2009