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Cancer treatment bills

21 Jan 2019

Cancer survivors face hardships related to medical bills: Study

Among privately insured survivors, having a high deductible health plan without a health savings account was also associated with greater hardship compared with low-deductible insurance.

13 Mar 2018

Tobacco industry makes over USD 9,000 with every smoker's death: Report

The increase in tobacco-related disease and death has been outpaced by the increase in industry profits.

02 Nov 2016

Five ways to stay fit and prevent cancer!

Tobacco use is the single greatest risk factor for cancer mortality worldwide.

01 Nov 2016

5.5 million women per year will lose their life to cancer by 2030, says report

All four of the deadliest cancers - breast, colorectal, lung and cervical cancer - are mostly preventable or can be detected early, when treatment is more successful.

No-Shave November

04 Nov 2015

No-Shave November: Say hello to facial hair and kiss your razors goodbye!

So, men have you kissed your razors goodbye? If you haven't yet, put down your razors, let your beard grow and proudly don that moustache!

21 Oct 2015

American Cancer Society eases mammogram guidelines

The society, which has for years taken the most aggressive approach to screening, issued new guidelines yesterday, recommending that women with an average risk of breast cancer start having mammograms at 45 and continue once a year until 54, then every other year for as long as they are healthy and likely to live another 10 years.

19 Oct 2015

IMRT better than standard lung cancer therapy

According to the American Cancer Society, in the United States, 221,200 will be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2015 and 158,040 will die from the disease - making it the deadliest of all cancers.

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