We Need to Improve Access to Oral Chemotherapy By Changing Insurance Co-Pays and Out-Of-Pocket Expenses

Cancer chemotherapy agents historically have been administered intravenously or by an injection. In recent times there have been a number of emerging oral chemotherapy. Most of us strongly prefer the oral drugs as they are a convenient and noninvasive alternative to intravenous and injected therapies. Additionally, many of the intravenously delivered chemotherapy drugs target and [...]

Lady Sybil Dies on Downton Abbey Leaving an Important Message for All of Us

I recently read a very interesting post by Trisha Torrey on About.com about a happening on the TV show, Downton Abbey. Downton Abbey is a PBS (in the United States) TV show that originates from the UK. Briefly, the show is about the British aristocracy and their help, not dissimilar to the other famous show [...]

Deciding Whether to Allow CPR in People with Advanced Cancer

It is unfortunate, but some of us will approach a time when we know that the advanced prostate cancer we have been battling has gotten the better of us and will end our life in the near future. If we are admitted into the hospital we will be asked to sign a lot of papers [...]

How Much Does that Drug Cost? You Have to be Kidding!

How much money is a drug worth and how much money should we be willing to spend for it have been questions that have been increasingly asked by economists, doctors and cancer survivors. Last month in an Op-Ed article three doctors from Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center in New York (Sloane) let the world know [...]

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