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MAJOR HOSPITAL REFUSES TO PRESCRIBE NEW COLON CANCER DRUG
A 2003 law requires that Medicare must pay whatever price the drug manufacturer sets– plus a 6% cushion. Continue reading
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Tagged Avastin, escalating costs of medical care, Medicare drugs, Zaltrap
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ATTENTION CANCER PATIENTS WITH SWOLLEN LEGS
If you are a cancer patient who has been diagnosed with a blood clot and you now have a very swollen leg/legs that your doctor cannot explain, please read on– our experience may illuminate your own. Continue reading
Shedding Light On the Cancer Journey: the book
My dear and faithful readers: As of today, over 71,000 people have read and hopefully benefited from this blog– beyond my wildest expectation when I started this project 10 years ago. Such strong support has led me to turn Shedding … Continue reading
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A FEW MORE WORDS ABOUT POWERPORTS
Having a Powerport is not a free ride. It isn’t one of one of those medical marvels that you have installed in your body and then forget about. Continue reading
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Tagged blood draws with powerport, catscan with powerport, plugged powerport, port access, powerport, surfing with a port
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SOMETIMES TOO MUCH RESEARCH IS NOT A GOOD THING
We have to do our own research. However, research is a double edged sword: it might save you, but it can utterly devastate you as well. Continue reading
COUMADIN FOR LIFE
While researching the causes for the malaise that John was still feeling a full month after his first RFA and 2 months after the end of chemo, I discovered a surprising fact. Virtually all the symptoms John was experiencing– weakness, … Continue reading
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Tagged coumadin for life, coumadin side effects, INR monitoring, IVC filter blockage
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WHEN YOUR LOVED ONE IS NOT HIMSELF
Confusion and strange behavior which appears suddenly often has a cause that is reversible with changes in medication. Continue reading
RFA FOR LIVER METASTASES– A VETERAN PATIENT’S PERSPECTIVE
After 7 RFA procedures in 1 1/2 years, my husband John definitely qualified as an expert on RFA for liver mets from the patient’s point of view. Continue reading
Shedding Light On the Cancer Journey 