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 …
Miami Woman with Lung Cancer Meets with Florida Lawmakers to Advocate for Change Local resident Irisaida Mendez is a Stage IV cancer patient with lung metastasis. Every day, she fights to live and fights to breathe. This Wednesday, March 17, she will meet with members of Congress to raise awareness about the disease and demand …
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 …
Howie doesn’t understand why the park won’t let him pack his things and leave A Hull cancer survivor has been left “mad, frustrated and upset” after he was forced to put his beloved caravan up for sale following rising rent costs at a caravan park. Howie Grant, 51, said he had been “held to ransom” and was …
Chris Ross examines how pharma can drive awareness and adoption of patient support solutions Patient support programmes (PSPs) have arguably never been more important. As health systems all over the world adopt remote models of patient engagement, and fears of COVID-19 transmission make people think twice about seeing a doctor, tools that help patients self- …
For years, Assemblyman Richard Gottfried has introduced a bill creating a single-payer health care system in New York. Gottfried and Sen. Gustavo Rivera on Monday reintroduced the measure on Monday. And this year, with a pandemic claiming tens of thousands of lives in New York and exposing new cracks in the health care system, is …
Due to new medications in discovery, the outcomes for patients with cancer are increasingly improving; however, the cost of this improved care is also increasing. Due to new medications in discovery, the outcomes for patients with cancer are increasingly improving; however, the cost of this improved care is also increasing, according to Harlan Levine, MD, …
‘Financial toxicity’ linked to lower survival, Roswell Park study in patients with head/neck cancers shows Researchers asked patients about their concerns and quality of life Study is first to show that financial stress predicts overall survival Team exploring approaches to lessen the effects of stress on cancer patients Following up on a study Roswell Park …
Being casually compared to sons, like it is a feather on our cap, is only one of the stinging insults we brush aside; two daughters of a father who has been diagnosed with cancer write on how ‘concerned’ relatives are not making it any easy for them. A man of 65 years, retired, reasonably happy …
Caring for loved ones isn’t just a great responsibility. It’s costly, too. Throughout a year defined by health and financial crises, 48 million unpaid American caregivers have faced extra financial strain, according to personal finance expert Jean Chatzky and data from the AARP. Today, more than 1 in 5 Americans are unpaid caregivers; they provide assistance …