THE EXPIRATION DATE Karkinos means ‘crab’ in Greek, and cancer in Latin. In a previous blog, early this year, I mentioned briefly the meaning of my life with diagnosis of a primary malignancy. The title is: PATIENT’S NOTES ON the ANNUAL CANCER REPORT by the AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY. You can find it down on the list of my blog posts. Those were my reflections on the 2026 American Cancer Society Report. Little did I know that seven months later I would be diagnosed with two new