Cancer

A friend of mine ( 23 yrs old) was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma in July. She has no medical insurance, but Medicaid will probably kick-in soon. She has also received many generous donations; however, this can only go so far since medical costs are so high. Does anyone know of any place to try to find funds or financial aid for a person in her situation. She lives in Brooklyn, NY. if that helps any.

2006-10-09 14:57:45 · 3 answers · asked by Jill M 1

My boyfriends dad has NHL and the chemo and rutuxin are not working, the tumor is non operable. Is there any hope that radiation might work to shrink this tumor down to a shell?

2006-10-09 14:48:13 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

if you have cervical cancer, how long do you live for and is there a treatment for it if you find out right when you have cancer?

2006-10-09 14:26:59 · 5 answers · asked by countryside_77 1

When i read the obituairies it seems like everyone is dying of cancer and in their 50's or even 40's. There is so much stuff of the internet and TV that says that heating stuff up in plastic in the microwave causes cancer. Then they were linking antibiotics to breast cancer. This is all getting so crazy. A friend of my family just died after suffering for 2 years with pancreatic cancer and he suffered and i bet he weight 80 pounds when he died. This is all so disturbing. I read where some man said him and his wife lived a very healthy life of eating right and excercise and she was recently diagnosed with a terminal cancer so they went out and bought a fry daddy and are enjoying the rest of their life and wondering if it was all for nothing (not eating what they wanted) all those years.

2006-10-09 13:33:01 · 9 answers · asked by Darcee 3

What is the process that you have to go to? WHere do you sign up? Are there national databases you get on to become a donor. Is it a nation donor bank you register with? DOes the army have there own bank?

2006-10-09 09:32:42 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

It seems my husband's fight is still on and he'll probably need another surgery and maybe more treatment of some kind. Sometimes the cancer is stubborn or resistant.

2006-10-09 08:21:50 · 2 answers · asked by ? 6

Wana know if Cancer can be spread through saliva in the mouth while kissing ?

I have read something on the internet about the same - and i wana confirm.

Please provide accurate information

2006-10-09 08:20:39 · 8 answers · asked by Keith 1

2006-10-09 08:02:52 · 3 answers · asked by londonboy 1

turned my forms in so i could be sent an appt. its almost a month. no reply

2006-10-09 05:13:03 · 3 answers · asked by don p 1

My brother died in march who had a wife of 5 years and 2 children I have had counciling and am taking anti-depressants and although the pain has got easier to deal with i still find it hard to cope when religious people say that he's in a better place and that he was needed else were. When in my eyes he was most needed here with his family and he was in the best place he was (with his family) He was only 32 and had a very rare case of liver cancer and he had done absolutely nothing wrong in his life whatsoever he didnt drink much at all and never took drugs his only vice was he smoked until he was 27 wow big deal there is no justice in the world

2006-10-09 05:12:18 · 20 answers · asked by Staffy 1

2006-10-09 03:32:21 · 20 answers · asked by willy 1

For hyperthyroidism, I know it's caused by nodules in the thyroid - are these nodules necessarily malignant? And can hyperthyroidism cause swelling of lymph nodes? How about thyroid cancer? For hypothyroidism, is there any way it can be realted to cancer?

2006-10-09 00:48:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

is?
1-chemotherapy
2-surgery
3-radiation

2006-10-08 23:13:15 · 5 answers · asked by mohammad 1

2006-10-08 19:07:31 · 21 answers · asked by X 3

i think i may have throat cancer..

im 18 years old and for a couple days now i have been having a dry cough. tonight i noticed i only cough when i breathe in and it hurts when i move my neck. if i look down my throat hurts like sometings in it or something.

i have a runny nose tho to so i dont know if im just sick or if it's throat cancer. i cant take deep throats cuz when i do i cough. my flem i spit out is yellow and disscolored. (thought it was blood but my freind said no) im going to the ER tomorrow because there is no doctors open on memorial day

any suggestions?

2006-10-08 17:26:22 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

If we consider, number of smokers/1000 people you will find that 25 or 30 years ago, people used to smoke much more than nowadays.
Why Health Authorities never publish figures showing a decrease in the lung cancer incidence, if any.

2006-10-08 16:21:05 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

My father in law is dying of cancer. he is in his death bed and people keep asking.. How is you father in law? He only has like 1 mo. left. I DONT KNOW WHAT TO SAY. Help?

2006-10-08 15:31:56 · 9 answers · asked by LJ 2

2006-10-08 06:08:53 · 9 answers · asked by Ama 1

My mom just got diagnosed with a tumor on her right kidney and it has spread to her lungs and her bones. What can they do for this? What does it all mean? She had blood in her urine yesterday, she went to the ER and they did a CT scan. Nothing can be done until tomorrow but I want info now to help me cope.

2006-10-08 05:42:30 · 13 answers · asked by nnabed80 2

If you were diagnosed with oral cancer six years ago in its last stages and were not given much of a chance to survive and yet you did come out of it. In the process, however, you lost your voice ( and marketing/sales was your profession ), you now breathe through your throat and then your food passage blocked up and its been six long years since you last even had a sip of water, let alone solids from your mouth. All that you " eat" is liquids injected directly into your stomach. To top it all the doctors have given no chance of ever getting back to be able to eat or breathe normally and the cancer has surfaced again but in a very small controlable way.
How would you cope with it / what would you do? Keeping in view you have two young sons in their teens and a wife and a widowed mother, who you have to take care of as there is noone else and you are the sole earning member.

2006-10-08 05:36:09 · 14 answers · asked by livingonthinice 3

My mother in law had undergone radio theraphy for throat cancer and now has developed painful sores in her mouth.What is the treatment available,if any for this.

2006-10-08 05:30:13 · 3 answers · asked by Samlote 1

2006-10-08 05:19:05 · 17 answers · asked by wanttolpve 4

I have a colleague who was diagnosed with cancer(stage 1)some years ago and it is in remission currently.However,she disclosed to me recently that she lives in fear of succumbing to the disease even till now.So long term survivors just share your experience so that i can encourage her=)

2006-10-08 04:52:17 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Why are the scientists not being able to stop the cancer cell from travelling from one part of the body to another.

2006-10-08 02:04:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

My relative has been through so much, bowel cancer was operated on, but had spread to liver, he caught c.diff, then they still gave him chemo, which totally wiped him out, he got c.diff again as well as mrsa and wound infections.
He then had duodenal ulcers which ruptured, and severe colitis has resulted in an emergency colostomy.
If he survives the next few hours of intensive care and they can keep internal bleeding from recuring, will the colostomy removal mean he should be able to get over the c.diff etc, so that he can get stronger to fight the liver secondary?
He has been through so much, i wish that he did not have to suffer so much.

2006-10-08 01:22:51 · 12 answers · asked by BRICK 3

Polimod is a drug help with the immune system.
I have a relative who lives outside of UK and needs it. Because the ones produced in Switzerland or Italy (or whatever the place near UK is) are the finest and I know people use them in hospitals. So can anyone tell me where to get POLIMOD from?

THNX

(AND BY THE WAY, what drugs are good for lung cancer and bone cancer and i can get them?)

2006-10-08 00:00:04 · 2 answers · asked by Missy 1

I would do it only if it was cheap. Can I send them to any doctor overseas online who does it for less ?

2006-10-07 21:32:27 · 1 answers · asked by neo112 1

Reason why my farther has lung cancer and has to have part of his lung removed and i like my lungs i tell everyone i know who smokes that those are cancer sticks lol

2006-10-07 19:29:45 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

where yahoo will donate $1 to Komen Foundation, if one changes their home page.

2006-10-07 15:16:04 · 4 answers · asked by Celina L 1

They want to remove his kidney, he will not let them. He talks about shotting hisself to keep from going back on the kidney machine again. I learned to run the machine and do treatment at home so to make it easier on him. He is off the machine right now. But he may have to be back on again. But he says he not going back on it and he will kill himself before. His father had his kidney removed 1987 because of cancer and they said he would live four years if remove, not six month if not. He died six weeks after surgery. So dad will not let them remove his. I understand that. It is just him wanting to take his life. I will stand by his choice about his kidney surgery but what can I say or do to keep him from killing himself?

2006-10-07 13:50:52 · 11 answers · asked by kay 1