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The shattering price of lockdown: Huge impact of curbs on our health and economy is revealed after a year of Covid restrictions… as EU vaccine block threatens to hit Britain’s rollout for MONTHS

The shattering price of lockdown: Huge impact of curbs on our health and economy is revealed after a year of Covid restrictions… as EU vaccine block threatens to hit Britain’s rollout for MONTHS

Pandemic measures are costing the UK £500million every day in lost output  The NHS waiting list has soared to a record high of nearly 4.6million Pubs and restaurants are losing an estimated £1.7billion a week  The appalling cost of a year of draconian Covid restrictions and lockdowns is laid bare today. On the eve of …

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Speaker: Younger patients with cancer deserve prompt fertility preservation counseling

Speaker: Younger patients with cancer deserve prompt fertility preservation counseling

Young patients with cancer preparing to undergo treatment that may impair reproductive function should receive prompt counseling on fertility preservation options and referral to specialists, according to Douglas B. Fair, MD, MS. “Future family building is extremely important to our patients,” Fair, director of the sarcoma and musculoskeletal tumor program at Primary Children’s Hospital and medical …

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Cure for cancer the next target for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine inventor Ugur Sahin

Cure for cancer the next target for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine inventor Ugur Sahin

Turkish-German scientist and entrepreneur envisions use of techniques developed for COVID-19 fight in successful cancer treatment Sahin says a new vaccine version would be more easily transportable and more effective against new COVID-19 variants DUBAI: The man who invented the first vaccine against the deadly coronavirus is prioritizing a cure for cancer as his post-pandemic target. …

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Financial Toxicity and Survival of Patients With Cancer

Financial Toxicity and Survival of Patients With Cancer

Worries about out-of-pocket costs of treatment they are receiving — so-called “financial toxicity” — may harm outcomes for patients with cancer, new research suggests. The study found that patients with head and neck cancer who were worried about their finances had approximately double the risk of dying when compared to patients without such worries. The findings were published in Oral …

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Thousands of hard-up Londoners with cancer accessed £1m in Macmillan grants

Thousands of hard-up Londoners with cancer accessed £1m in Macmillan grants

Cancer charity Macmillan Cancer Support last year gave just over £1 million in hardship grants to 3,300 people with cancer in London to help with the pandemic’s financial impact and the unexpected costs cancer can bring. Overall in the UK, during 2020, Macmillan gave over £9.2million in hardship grants to pay for people’s home comforts …

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Community Gathers to Cheer for Mercy on Her Way to Seattle Children’s for Last Round of Chemo

Community Gathers to Cheer for Mercy on Her Way to Seattle Children’s for Last Round of Chemo

Mercy Haub has wanted to cure cancer since she was 7 years old. “The irony of it all is unbelievable,” she said. Today, at 16 years old, that mission still drives her, but now it hits closer to home, more so than she could have ever imagined. A week before the statewide lockdown went into …

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