Have I been abandoned? I feel as if I have. In today’s mail was a letter from my kidney oncologist (I also have renal cancer) telling me that he will no longer accept my insurance! He said that he hoped that I would continue to use him as my physician, but if not he recommended [...]
Yesterday afternoon Senators Harkin and Specter introduced a landmark supplemental funding bill for the NIH. The Senator's bill proposes providing the National Cancer Institute with an additional $1.2 billion and the rest of the National Institutes of Health with $4 billion for FY 2008. This bill stems from their concern about the inadequate funding for [...]
A short time ago, I asked you to write to your legislators and encourage them to increase the nation's investment in cancer research and early detection programs in the federal government's 2009 budget. This funding is crucial to discovering and delivering the cures that we so desperately need. Thanks to your efforts, both the Senate [...]
Health care reimbursement rates from insurance companies and Medicare drive many of our medical decisions in the United States. Call me a liberal, but I do believe that health care is a right, not a privilege and that financial decisions should NOT play a role in the decisions about what is best for patients. However, [...]
I want to change pace a little today and instead of directly discussing advanced prostate cancer, I am going to discuss an issue that has been coming up in our community, universal prostate cancer screening. We have all been embattled in an on going dispute, a disagreement about the value of general prostate cancer screening. [...]