Donations fund canine research A promising vaccine stimulates the patient’s immune system to fight cancer Jennifer Weissel did not expect her greyhound, Kelly, to live to be “an old lady”. In 2019, Weissel noticed some lumps growing under Kelly’s jaw. Specialists at the University Veterinary Teaching Hospital Sydney diagnosed lymphoma, a common, aggressive and usually fatal cancer …

Even for patients with insurance and above-average incomes, high out-of-pocket healthcare costs stand in the way of follow-up care for cancer survivors. May 27, 2021 – High out-of-pocket healthcare costs are hampering patient engagement in follow-up care, even among some of the most privileged cancer survivors, a new study from the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. The …

A new study conducted by the American Cancer Society (ACS) shows worse cancer survival rates across all stages and types in states that have limited Medicaid access, including Alabama. The study, headed by ACS’s Cancer Action Network (ACSCAN), analyzed the outcomes of more than one million cancer patients across the country with the 17 most …

“Kinship care” is defined by the Pennsylvania KinConnector as “the full-time care, nurturing and protection of children by relatives or any adult who has a ‘kinship’ bond with the children.” In 2020, the organization Generations United reported that 8 million children are living with a relative as the head of the household, nationwide. Among them, …

By Carly SternThe Washington Post After Angelena Taylor’s father survived a stroke in late 2015, she snapped into crisis mode. A month into a master’s program for educational psychology, Taylor, now 33, took unpaid leave from her job. She didn’t want to send her dad to a facility, and his private health insurance didn’t cover home-care …

This opinion column was submitted by Nita Schwartz, MD, an emergency physician and hospice care medical director in Carson Valley. As a physician, I see firsthand the complex and often devastating way health care — and lack of it — can affect people’s lives. The best way to help people who don’t have health care get …

The resilience of cancer cells and their ability to survive in extreme conditions is a large part of what makes cancer so difficult to treat. But being such effective survivors may come at a cost. A group of Cancer Research UK-funded scientists are beginning to discover new vulnerabilities in cancer cells, which emerge when they enter …

Christopher Su, MD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, discusses results from a study investigating the differences in costs and care utilization between blood cancer survivors and solid cancer survivors, and examining what their survivorship looks like.  These results were presented at the 2021 virtual National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Annual Conference. Transcript:  Hello, my name is …

Peter MacNamara has been battling prostate cancer since 2011 and has found immunotherapy via a clinical trial to be hugely helpful. FOR MOST MEN of my generation, the idea of going to see a doctor to have your prostate checked out is not something you want to think about too much. In my case, a …

Researchers developed a model to identify high-value oncology care in episodes of initial, survivorship, and relapse care (JCO Oncol Pract. 2021 Mar 1;OP2000462. doi: 10.1200/OP.20.00462). “To estimate the value of cancer care and to compare value among episodes of care, a transparent, reproducible, and standardized cost computation methodology is needed,” explained Douglas Blayney, MD, Stanford …