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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Co-Pay Assistance Program is a program designed to provide financial assistance for people struggling with costly drug co-pays:
As you may know, a diagnosis of leukemia, Hodgkin or non-Hodgkin lymphoma, myeloma or other blood cancers brings many daily challenges.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is committed to providing information, support and guidance […]
Regardless of the type of alcoholic beverage (beer wine, liquor) - in both men and women - drinking at least an average of one alcoholic beverage a day was found associated with a 30% reduction in renal cancer risk.
Such is the result of an analysis of 12 prospective studies of alcohol consumption among renal cancer […]
Not only is aspirin good for the heart, its daily dose also has the potential to prevent bowel cancer (a.k.a. colorectal or colon cancer).
Examining data on 7,500 people who were involved in two UK trials conducted in the 1970s and the 1980s and were randomly assigned to receive 300, 500 or 1,200mg of aspirin per […]
According to a new systematic review, when chemotherapy is given to women with operable breast cancer before having the surgery (not after), it helps oncologists to pin down the best treatment regimen and can reduce the extent of surgery.
Preoperative chemotherapy reduced chemo-related infections by 4 percent and the need for mastectomies by 17 percent when […]
First-degree relatives of patients with early-onset lung cancer are at an increased risk of developing other types of cancer, says a new study from University of Michigan and Wayne State University.
The said risk is largely affected by race:
African-American case relatives were more than twice as likely to develop head and neck cancers compared with their […]
Mainly consumed in Sweden and Norway, snus (snuff) is a tobacco product designed for insertion between the gum and upper lip and for years there has been argument whether its net effect on one’s health is positive or negative.
People using Swedish moist snuff (snus) doubles their risk of developing pancreatic cancer, according to a new […]
People with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are more prone to the development of certain lymphomas (cancers of the lymphatic system).
Such were the findings of researchers from the National Cancer Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health) and Baylor College of Medicine, reported in the May 8 issue of the Journal of the American […]
Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers found conclusive evidence that human papillomavirus (HPV) causes some throat cancers in both men and women.
Study participants who reported having more than six oral sex partners in their lifetime were 8.6 times more likely to develop the HPV-linked cancer.
Oral HPV infection has been found to be the strongest risk […]
In their attempt to pinpoint novel therapies in the prevention of cancer spread or metastasis, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine researchers have targeted a sugar – heparin sulfate- that supports the growth of blood vessel in the tumor.
Lung cancer is one type of cancer where therapies that would block metastasis is […]
The widely used diabetes drug rosiglitazone has been found to dramatically boost the potency of platinum-based cancer drugs when administered together in a variety of cancer cell lines and mice with tumors.
Rosiglitazone, sold under the name Avandia®, enhances insulin receptors’ sensitivity in diabetics whose pancreas secretes too little insulin. It was approved in 1999 for […]
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Written by Gloria Gamat [email] for b5media.
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