Lahoucine, who is stranded in Spain due to closed borders and lockdown, is suffering and needs to have an urgent operation. Rabat –  Corine, a worker at the Patient Care department of the Quenet Torrent Institute in Spain, has brought to light the heartbreaking case of a Moroccan man stranded in Spain. The medical worker launched a Go …

A Moray schoolboy is cycling 100 miles this month to raise money for a breast cancer charity. Lewis Mackay, from Keith, will take on the challenge during June to help his auntie Trisha Davidson’s fundraising efforts for Breast Cancer Care. The six-year-old has already clocked up 27 miles and raised more than £2,500 alongside his …

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unexpected financial hardships and reduced hospital capacity for cancer screenings and treatment. Cancer patients and those who’ve recently completed treatment are finding it challenging to get necessary health care during the COVID-19 pandemic, and many are experiencing financial stress trying to afford care in an increasingly difficult economic environment.  Emily Ogden (Photo: …

For more information related to coronavirus (COVID-19), visit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS)’s Coronavirus Resources page. This blog post is based on an original post on The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) blog. The content was modified for the PearlPoint Nutrition Services® blog. PearlPoint Nutrition Services® is a program of LLS. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been …

Due to the expenses that accrue from high medical co-payments during treatment, many cancer survivors experience financial toxicity (FT). In a new study published in Psycho-Oncology, researchers analyzed data on cancer survivors’ experiences with FT and found that survivors have unmet needs in its management.1 The data demonstrated that although cancer survivors experience FT, their awareness …

While medicine transforms cancer into a chronic disease with which patients can live for an extended period of time, financial toxicity threatens to turn chronic, too. It sometimes seems baffling to me: I put my life on the line for research to produce a cancer medication that — if and when it is put on …

From across the world and having been touched by cancer and suffered from the dire impact cancer had on the finances of their families and families they know, they now come together as one to beat financial toxicity of cancer on families. Faces fighting financial toxicity of cancer Here are some of their faces – …

A grandfather has told how he would have been left disfigured after health chiefs said they could remove his cancer but not carry out reconstructive surgery because of the Covid-19 crisis. John Price (69) said he was instead forced to borrow £50,000 for private treatment and called last night for others in similar situations to …