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Hans Casteels
The Oncology Underground
Welcome 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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The Day the Future Finally Stopped Moving
By Hans Casteels. Ruminating on the forbidden relief that can arrive when uncertainty finally gives way to truth, and why laying down the fight is not the same as surrender.
Letters From Oliver: Isabel’s Continuing Education
By Hans Casteels, who swore up and down that she would not be spoiled. He was wrong as usual.
Diary of a Fruit Fly: The Peaches Are Excellent, the Dog Is Terrifying, and Hans Is a Murderer.
By Hans Casteels
The Thirty Dollar Solution to the Hundred Thousand Dollar Problem
A Guest Essay for Erica Sell, who is grappling with the same questions I am grappling with.
Anyone Else Feels This Way? I Am Sick of Being the Sick Person
Hans With Cancer, Third Earl of Firmagon, Lord of the Hot Flash, Protector of the Urinal, Defender of the Questionable PSA. And I resent that.
The Cruelest Side Effect Is the Second Guess
By Hans Casteels, second-guessing himself all the time
My Wife Speaks Italian. Unfortunately, She Doesn’t Need Words.
By Hans Casteels
The Hierarchy of Suffering
By Hans Casteels
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?
By Hans Casteels, getting more confused by "medical wisdom" every day.
Update 3: The Oncology Underground Dictionary of Words That Should Be Banned in Cancerverse.
By Hans Casteels. Your Guide to the Strange Dialect Spoken in the Cancerverse