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Half of all cancer survivors suffer from cancer-related financial difficulties


Half of all cancer survivors suffer from cancer-related financial difficulties

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Half of cancer survivors experience cancer-related financial difficulties, according to a research letter published online Aug. 20 JAMA network opened. Apoorv Dhir, MD, of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and colleagues estimated the prevalence of financial hardship among cancer survivors across different cancer types. The analysis […]

Tom Still: At Epic, AI is not just the next big thing: it is already improving care


Tom Still: At Epic, AI is not just the next big thing: it is already improving care

VERONA – Epic’s user group meeting offers thousands of attendees a themed surprise each year, so it was no surprise when founder Judy Faulkner appeared onstage at the company’s Deep Space Auditorium on Tuesday dressed as “Lady Swan,” a variation on Mother Goose and fitting into a larger narrative motif. What may have surprised the […]

Cancer daily horoscope today, August 28, 2024, predicts a productive love life | Astrology


Cancer daily horoscope today, August 28, 2024, predicts a productive love life | Astrology

28 August 2024, 00:03 IST Read Cancer daily horoscope August 28, 2024 to know your astrological predictions. Spread happiness in love relationship and feel the excitement. Cancer – (June 21 to July 22) The daily horoscope forecast says: Fix the problems today with a smile Daily horoscope for Cancer today, August 28, 2024. Reduce expenses […]

Tom Still: At Epic, AI is not just the next big thing: it is already improving care


Tom Still: At Epic, AI is not just the next big thing: it is already improving care

VERONA – Epic’s user group meeting offers thousands of attendees a themed surprise each year, so it was no surprise when founder Judy Faulkner appeared onstage at the company’s Deep Space Auditorium on Tuesday dressed as “Lady Swan,” a variation on Mother Goose and fitting into a larger narrative motif. What may have surprised the […]

Acquired Disability: How a Cancer Diagnosis Changed My Life


Acquired Disability: How a Cancer Diagnosis Changed My Life

I have been writing this column for nine months, but I have never told my own story of how cancer and chemotherapy led to my disability. At age 30, I started feeling tired, my hair started falling out, and I became mentally ill. One morning, my husband found me standing in the closet, muttering that […]

Teenage leukemia survivor meets life-saving donor for the first time in tearful encounter in New York: “He is a gift from heaven”


Teenage leukemia survivor meets life-saving donor for the first time in tearful encounter in New York: “He is a gift from heaven”

For 18-year-old leukemia survivor Elijah John, it was a meeting he wasn’t sure would ever happen. The Brooklyn native and his family gathered at Pier 57 in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood on a sunny Saturday afternoon in August to meet Nicholas Miranda-Newberry, the man who donated his bone marrow to save the teenager’s life three years […]

Dance Moms’ Kelly Hyland reveals warning signs she had before breast cancer diagnosis


Dance Moms’ Kelly Hyland reveals warning signs she had before breast cancer diagnosis

Kelly Hyland, who stars in the reality show “Lifetime” Dancing mothershas announced that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. The former reality star recently spoke with E! News about what it was like to find out something was wrong and what warning signs prompted them to go to the doctor. “The first warning sign […]

Run for life at the Relay for Life


Run for life at the Relay for Life

WATONWAN COUNTY, Minn. (KEYC) – Relay for Life is a volunteer-led event that raises money for people with cancer and their caregivers. The nationwide effort began in 1985 and now has more than 3,000 participating communities worldwide, according to the American Cancer Society. “We’re just a really big group of passionate people trying to raise […]

Stop calling prostate cancer “the good kind”


Stop calling prostate cancer “the good kind”

Exercise classes help prostate cancer survivors stay healthy Virgil and Delores Brown participated in the “Health is Wealth” fitness program at the Milwaukee Oasis for black men who have survived prostate cancer. My father died of the “good kind” of cancer. He was 62 when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He battled it for […]

Cognitive behavioral therapy improves the psychological well-being and quality of life of cancer patients


Cognitive behavioral therapy improves the psychological well-being and quality of life of cancer patients

In a meta-analysis recently published in Cancer Medicine, researchers examined the effects of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) on the mental health (MH) and quality of life (QoL) of cancer patients. Study: The effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy on mental health and quality of life in people diagnosed with cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysisPhoto credit: […]