[Wayback/Archive] Irrational measuring stick: The Venn Diagram of pseudoscientific nonsense – Genetic Literacy Project has some explanation on the incarnation of the below cool diagram on various incarnations of four basic sets or bollocks: Religion, Quackery, Pseudoscience and the Paranormal. The center of the diagram should not surprise anyone:
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Irrational measuring stick: The Venn Diagram of pseudoscientific nonsense – Genetic Literacy Project
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/12/05
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grief doesn’t shrink we grow around it
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/09
On the TODO list is to write more about the origin of “grief doesn’t shrink we grow around it”. For now, this is good enough:
The theory is from the influential 1996 article “Growing around grief—another way of looking at grief and recovery, Lois Tonkin TTC, Cert Counselling (NZ)”
Nowadays most people refer to it as the “grief jar”, see image below, but these weren’t the original images: those are on the right. Initially everyone thought that grief would shrink as seen in Figure 1 and Figure 2, but in fact we grow around it as shown in Figure 3.
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File scoped namespaces – C# 10.0 draft specifications | Microsoft Learn
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/01
Oops, I thought this had been published a long time ago, but oh well: it is never too late to publish reflections on a C# programming language improvement.
After recovering from my rectum cancer treatments and finally upgrading most of my projects to recent enough C# versions, it was time to catch up on useful little C# language features released during my treatments.
This one is really nice: [Wayback/Archive] File scoped namespaces – C# 10.0 draft specifications | Microsoft Learn.
I wish it had been released much earlier, as it so much reminds me of the unit keyword in Delphi which influenced C# a lot. Well, actually the unit actually started in UCSD Pascal and Turbo Pascal; UCSD Pascal ran on the UCSD p-Machine (more on that in a future blog post), which influenced the Java Virtual Machine, which was based on Java bytecode and a Just-in-time compiler in turn influenced the .NET Common Language Runtime.
There are many examples from other languages, paradigms and frameworks: I love how C# and .NET bring so much programming history together.
In Delphi it is easy: a source file can contain at maximum one unit (and apart from files included in that source file, no other source files can contribute to that unit) and the filename needs to match the unitname, so the unit is a self contained namespace.
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“United by Unique”, the new World Cancer Day theme 2025-2027 | World Cancer Day – #WorldCancerDay #UnitedByUnique
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/04
[Wayback/Archive] “United by Unique”, the new World Cancer Day theme 2025-2027 | World Cancer Day.
Most of my cancer story is in reverse chronological order on the pinned Tweet of my Twitter profile twitter.com/jpluimers.
I learned quite a few things of which I mention 2:
- Cancer is more than a disease
- Getting cancer is a misfortune; surviving cancer is about luck
Read more at my pinned blog post and [Wayback/Archive] Official website of World Cancer Day by UICC | 4 February.
Image on the right image from [Wayback/Archive] licensed-image (2048×2048) via [Wayback/Archive] world cancer day – Google Search.
Related: World Cancer Day – Wikipedia
--jeroen
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Linkjes rondom Macrogol: die van Ratiopharm verdraag ik het beste.
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/07/08
Eerst eveven een inleiding: waarom gebruik ik Macrogol en waarom deze post juist nu?
De TL;DR: ik heb ontlastingsklachten na veel ingrepen vanwege uitgezaaide endeldarmkanker. Macrogol helpt de ontlasting beter van consistentie te krijgen.
In 2023 testte ik 4 verschillende fabrikanten vanwege een beleidswijziging van de verzekeraar (wat hen veel geld kostte en mij veel tijd), wat achteraf goed was omdat een maand terug ineens het middel van de fabrikant die mijn lichaam het beste verdraagt niet leverbaar was.
Gelukkig heb ik van eerdere problemen met medcijnlevering (hallo allopurinol en hallo crisis in 2023 [Wayback/Archive] Dit is waarom we in Nederland zoveel medicijnen tekortkomen – EenVandaag!)
Een stukje geschiedenis
Na alle behandelingen van eind 2019 tot en met halverwege 2022 rondom mijn uitgezaaide endeldarmkanker blijf ik met LAR-syndroom, wat kort is voor low anterior resection syndrome. De Low Anterior Resection was bij mij onderdeel was van een Total Mesorectal Excision: een methode waarbij relatief veel omliggend weefsel rond de endeldarm wordt weggenomen om zo de kans op relatief lokale uitzaaiingen te verminderen.
Dit was het alternatief voor een permanent colostoma: een stoma van de dikke darm. Bij dit alternatief hoort een – vooraf door mij geaccepteerd risico – op TME post operatieve klachten. De operatie is een forse ingreep laag in het kleine bekken waar weinig ruimte is en bij vrouwen meer doorheen loopt (vagina en baarmoeder) dan bij mannen (prostaat), naast uiteraard blaas, plasbuis en de endeldarm.
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Inonica Smeets over de vraag “Ik heb uitgezaaide prostaatkanker, hoe groot is de kans dat ik over tien jaar nog leef?” | de Volkskrant
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/06/17
Op een prachtige manier beantwoord Ionica een vraag waar ik vanuit mijn voor van kanker ook mee geworsteld heb: [Archive] Ik heb uitgezaaide prostaatkanker, hoe groot is de kans dat ik over tien jaar nog leef? | de Volkskrant
Bij mij komt het terug, ik weet alleen niet wanneer. Als ik naar statistieken over de referentiegroep kijk, dan heb ik al ruim 70% overleefd. Sinds anderhalf jaar zie ik controles en bebehorende uitslagen dan ook weer met opgeven hoofd tegemoet.
Ook lukt het me gestaag steeds meer dingen te doen, hoewel ik niet een enorme bucket-list aan het afwerken ben of ga. De uitzondering is bepaalde mensen die ik te lang niet heb gezien toch nog te bezoeken of te ontvangen.
Misschien komen er nog een paar dromen uit, maar ook als dat niet zo is ben ik tevreden: ik heb fijne mensen om me heen en het huis voelt als een soor vakantiebestemming.
Dank je wel Ionica voor de mooie verwoording. Hopelijk vinden anderen er ook houvast aan.
Via: [Wayback/Archive] Ionica Smeets: “Over lastige vragen die niet te beantwoorden zijn, hoe graag je het ook zou willen. [DPG]” – Mathstodon
--jeroen
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Bereavement or grief do not just take place after death, adverse life changing events are also cause for them.
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/04/12
Below are some Dutch messages around bereavement and grief that take place before someone dies: it is important to be aware that adverse life changing events are also reasons for those emotions. Besides patients and their close ones, also medical professionals and care takers can grief as they too need to find a way to adjust to the new situation.
[Wayback/Archive] Rob Bruntink on Twitter: “Ik sprak met Manu Keirse over de vraag wat zorgverleners kunnen betekenen voor rouwenden. Mooi aan zijn antwoord is oa dat hij rouw niet uitsluitend koppelt aan de periode ná een overlijden. ‘Rouw begint direct bij het slechtnieuwsgesprek’.”
[Wayback/Archive] Manu Keirse: ‘De zorgverlener rouwt mee’ – Dutch Health Hub
A related English post is [Wayback/Archive] How Survivors Can Cope With Grief After Cancer | Cancer.Net
When you first learned of your cancer diagnosis, grief may have been one of the many feelings you experienced. It is natural to grieve when we go through loss or change—whether it is the loss of who you were before your diagnosis or the loss of physical body parts. And since cancer often results in many losses—expected and unexpected—grief is naturally part of the experience.
--jeroen
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Chemopomp | Home
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/11/17
Back when I had chemo in 2020 because of recum cancer metastases in the liver, the below Hepatic Arterial Infusion Pump (HAIP) alternative was not available yet. It means that current generations of Dutch patients have an improved method of treatment that hopefully helps increase their chances of survival.
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Herhaald appel aan #MeerOverMedisch (hallo @ReneSteenhorst): zorg dat je behalve per columnist de columns van individuele columnisten makkelijk terug kunt vinden. Bijvoorbeeld de geweldige columns van @IvanWolffers.
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/09/05
Ik herhaal mijn appel van een paar weken terug:
[Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Tip voor #MeerOverMedisch (ik hoop dat @ReneSteenhorst dit kan laten fiksen): zorg dat je behalve
meerovermedisch.nl/columntypes/gastcolumn/ook per columnist de columns van individuele columnisten makkelijk terug kunt vinden. Bijvoorbeeld de geweldige columns van @IvanWolffers.”
De volledige draad vind je op [Wayback/Archive] Thread by @jpluimers on Thread Reader App, waarover hieronder meer.
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Some links on a ketogenic diet and cancer: does it help prevent for cancer?
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/06/27
Disclaimer: only change your diet after consulting with your doctor!
Various cancer patients I know have switched to a ketogenic diet for quite a few years already.
So I did a bit of digging to see if it helps, or more importantly: if it doesn’t make it worse.
My start was the first hits on [Wayback/Archive.is] ketogenic cancer – Google Scholar:
- [Wayback/Archive.is] Ketogenic diet in cancer therapy – PMC on
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - [Wayback] Ketogenic diet in the treatment of cancer – Where do we stand? – ScienceDirect
- [Wayback] Ketogenic diets as an adjuvant cancer therapy: History and potential mechanism – ScienceDirect
- [Wayback] The calorically restricted ketogenic diet, an effective alternative therapy for malignant brain cancer | Nutrition & Metabolism | Full Text
- [Wayback] Effects of a ketogenic diet on the quality of life in 16 patients with advanced cancer: A pilot trial | Nutrition & Metabolism | Full Text
- [Wayback] Systematic review: isocaloric ketogenic dietary regimes for cancer patients | SpringerLink
Some more specific links are at [Wayback] ketogenic colorectal cancer – Google Scholar.
For now, I’m with these conclusions on the Wikipedia articles on Ketosis and Ketogenic diet:
- Cancer: Preclinical studies have indicated ketosis may have anti-tumor effects, although clinical trials have been limited by small sample sizes and have not shown conclusive benefit.[21]
- Because some cancer cells are inefficient in processing ketone bodies for energy, the ketogenic diet has also been suggested as a treatment for cancer.[61][62] A 2018 review looked at the evidence from preclinical and clinical studies of ketogenic diets in cancer therapy. The clinical studies in humans are typically very small, with some providing weak evidence for an anti-tumour effect, particularly for glioblastoma, but in other cancers and studies, no anti-tumour effect was seen. Taken together, results from preclinical studies, albeit sometimes contradictory, tend to support an anti-tumor effect rather than a pro-tumor effect of the KD for most solid cancers.[63]
–jeroen
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