Karkinos Farm is a memoir in the form of a book soon to be published.

Who is Karkinos?

Karkinos in Greek mythology is known as Carcinus. It is a transliteration of the Greek word for "crab". So Karkinos is a crab.

Karkinos was a giant crab who bit the hero Heracles in his foot. The goddess Hera, wife of Zeus, placed the crab amongst the stars as the constellation Cancer.

In the Latin, Carcinos means crab - cancer. Karkinos is cancer.

As we are about to see, Karkinos-cancer was man's foe from mythologic epochal times, continuing to the present day.

Karkinos Farm is a memoir by Mandy Lender. Mandy is a medical doctor - an internist by his training. He worked in the service of the Veterans Health Administration for 27 years when Karkinos (cancer), bit him in his... tongue. At about the same time Karkinos bit his sister Minna, a historian, then at Princeton University, at her breast. Both brother and sister got busy fighting back and upending cancer.

While Mandy and Minna were fighting cancer, Pirhia, mandy's wife of forty years was too bitten by Karkinos - cancer of the colon. She was striken and eventually succumbed to the cancer. All happened within a time-frame of 22 months.

Karkinos Farm is a narrative of a string of events that took place during from - October 2003 through July 2005. The pain of the treatments - the surgeries, the radiations, the chemotherapy, the anguish, the hopes, the successes and the failures. All from the point of view of a physician.internist.

Where is "Karkinos Farm"?

It seems that cancer-karkinos the crab, found fertile grounds in our family - the opportunity to reproduce after itself and multiply at about the same time. So karkinos farm is...