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 …
Fear of Covid-19 is delaying treatment for cancer patients, leading to complications and a lower survival rate In cancer, timely diagnosis is essential. It allows the disease to be identified at a treatable stage and prevents complications. But since the emergence of the coronavirus disease, the diagnosis and treatment of cancer has been negatively impacted. …
A father-of-five has warned of the devastating financial impact of his cancer diagnosis. Doug Harper, 58, from Plumstead, was found to have stage two breast cancer in January 2012 after being made redundant, so struggled to make ends meet. Mr Harper found it hard to get by after the costs of travelling to hospital treatment …
Even those with health insurance needed help navigating the financial consequences of cancer treatment, study showed Multiple studies show that cancer care costs contribute to financial toxicity in patients undergoing treatment. Now, recent results from the SWOG S1417CD trial in patients with newly diagnosed metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) add to the evidence on how many patients are …
Maybe it’s not that surprising that a recent CDC study revealed that four of 10 US adults have put off regular medical care because of their COVID-19-related concerns. The study’s authors found that as of June 30, 41 percent of adults delayed or avoided medical care. This includes emergency care, urgent care and routine care. …
Cancer does not affect everyone in the same way. A combination of factors, including race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status can make some patients face a greater cancer burden and poorer outcomes in cancer care and treatment. These inequities are called cancer disparities. The causes “are complex and reflect social and economic disparities and …
A new analysis predicts close to 3000 additional deaths over a 10-year period in patients who faced delays in breast cancer treatment during the pandemic. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused widespread delays and cancellations in the health care world, including in cancer care. And for breast cancer patients facing delays in surgery, …
CAR-T biotherapeutics company Carina Biotech and researchers at the University of South Australia have developed a novel approach based on microfluidic technology to “purify” the immune cells of patients in the fight against cancer. UniSA’s Future Industries Institute PhD student Mona Elsemary has developed a microfluidic approach to purify chimeric antigen receptor (CAR-T) cells, the …