A dedicated doctor by profession and a philanthropist, Dr. ZubaidaQazi is the founder of Pink Pakistan Trust striving to improve the health and well-being of Pakistani women by fighting the ailment of breast cancer. She has tirelessly worked to improve the infrastructure of the public health system by devising a referral mechanism and ensuring the …

Patient factors such as age and presence of gene mutation can contribute to difference in cost within subtypes New research from Vlerick Business School shows the cost of treating breast cancer varies depending on the type of breast cancer, but also the patient’s characteristics such as age and genetics. The study also identified a specific cost range …

Findings from a study published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society (ACS), demonstrate that social needs—such as food and economic insecurity, poor housing and neighborhood conditions, and lack of access to transportation—were common in a group of African American cancer survivors in Detroit, Michigan, and they were associated with lower health-related …

A Macmillan “super-fundraiser” has paid tribute to the village community who helped her smash her £100,000 charity target despite Covid-19 and its restrictions. When lockdown measures were ushered in in March, Fiona Phimester, 46, refused to let the pandemic blow her off course. She set herself a deadline of November for her decade-long fundraising challenge, …

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – About 20 children in the Cape Fear region will be diagnosed with cancer this year, according to a local nonprofit. A pandemic doesn’t stop families like the McCallums from getting that news either. Graclyn was diagnosed at two and a half years old with leukemia. The now 3-year-old likes playing with …

For so many, this year has felt like a long haul with no end in sight. A global pandemic, racial injustice and economic insecurity have all contributed to surging rates of mental illness in families across our community. Young people, Black and Hispanic communities, essential workers and unpaid caregivers report the highest rates of anxiety, …

A Buxton schoolgirl has defied all odds and learned to walk again for the third time in two years after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Isla Mansfield, five, was diagnosed with multi-system Langerhans’ cell histiocytosis (LCH) in May 2018 and was treated at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. Recalling the diagnosis, mum Rachael Hodgkinson …

The cost of cancer care in the U.S. continues to rise as debate persists about how to best bring down drug prices while ensuring sufficient health care coverage. Over the last 2 decades, the advent of targeted therapies, checkpoint inhibitors and chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, among others, has represented great progress in treatment of …

Partnership helps cancer survivors find essential resources to navigate once treatment ends. Las Vegas, United States – November 17, 2020 /PressCable/ —  Just4Cancer Teams Up with Cancer Journeys Foundation to Broaden Mutual Capabilities Partnership helps cancer survivors find essential resources to navigate once treatment ends. Las Vegas, Nevada – November 16, 2020 – Just4Cancer, a peer-to-peer …

We need to count the previously invisible cost of covid-19 on people with cancer The covid-19 pandemic has had a dramatic global health impact particularly in countries which are demographically older and with populations carrying significant co-morbidities. While the focus has been on direct mortality caused by covid-19 there has been little attention paid to …