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Navigating Your Cancer Treatment Journey in Elizabeth

When faced with a cancer diagnosis, the path forward can feel overwhelming. In Elizabeth, patients and caregivers have access to a wealth of resources designed to make this challenging time more manageable. This guide will walk you through essential aspects of cancer treatment and care, offering practical tips and insights to help you feel more informed and empowered.

For individuals seeking Cancer Treatment Elizabeth, exploring the available resources and specialized care options can provide valuable support and guidance throughout the journey towards recovery and well-being.

Understanding Your Diagnosis

What Type of Cancer Do You Have?

The first step in your cancer treatment journey is understanding your specific diagnosis. Different types require different approaches. For instance, breast cancer treatment differs significantly from lung cancer treatment.

The Importance of Staging

Staging helps determine the extent of cancer in your body. It influences the treatment plan your medical team will recommend. Early-stage cancers often have more treatment options and better outcomes compared to advanced stages.

Getting a Second Opinion

Don't hesitate to seek a second opinion. It can provide additional perspectives on your diagnosis and treatment options, reassuring you that you're making the best decisions for your health.

Exploring Treatment Options

Surgery

Surgery is often the first line of treatment for many types of cancer. It involves removing the tumor and surrounding tissue. In some cases, surgery might be enough to eliminate cancer, especially if caught early.

Radiation Therapy

Radiation therapy uses high-energy particles to destroy cancer cells. It's often used in conjunction with other treatments like surgery and chemotherapy to ensure all cancer cells are targeted.

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy involves using drugs to kill cancer cells. These drugs can be administered orally or intravenously, depending on the specific medication and your treatment plan.

Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy boosts your body's natural defenses to fight cancer. It has shown promise in treating various types of cancer and is an exciting area of ongoing research.

Managing Side Effects

Physical Side Effects

Common physical side effects include fatigue, nausea, and hair loss. Each treatment affects the body differently, and managing these side effects is crucial for maintaining your quality of life.

Emotional Well-being

The emotional toll of cancer treatment can be significant. Feelings of anxiety and depression are common. Engaging in activities you enjoy and seeking support from friends, family, or a counselor can help.

Nutritional Tips

Maintaining a balanced diet is essential. Certain foods can help manage side effects and keep you strong during treatment. Consult a nutritionist specialized in cancer care Elizabeth for personalized advice.

Financial Considerations

Insurance Coverage

Understanding your insurance coverage is critical. Ensure your treatments are covered and know what out-of-pocket expenses you might incur.

Financial Assistance Programs

Numerous organizations offer financial assistance for cancer patients. Research available programs to help alleviate the financial burden of treatment.

Budgeting Tips

Create a budget to manage your household expenses during treatment. This can help reduce stress and ensure you have the resources you need.

Complementary Therapies

Acupuncture

Acupuncture can help manage pain and nausea. It's a complementary therapy that many cancer patients find beneficial.

Massage Therapy

Massage therapy can relieve stress and reduce muscle tension. Ensure your therapist is experienced in working with cancer patients.

Mindfulness and Meditation

Practicing mindfulness and meditation can help manage stress and improve your overall well-being. Many apps and online resources can guide you through these practices.

Building a Healthy Lifestyle

Exercise

Regular exercise can improve your physical and emotional well-being. Consult your doctor to create a safe exercise plan tailored to your needs.

Healthy Eating

A balanced diet supports your body's healing process. Focus on whole foods, lean proteins, and plenty of fruits and vegetables.

Avoiding Risk Factors

Avoid known cancer risk factors like smoking and excessive alcohol consumption. Making these lifestyle changes can reduce the risk of recurrence.

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Trump may be about to sign the death sentence of the National Institute of Health, and, by extension, the Office of Lab Animal Welfare.

He gutted research animal protections.

Any vertebrate that isn't a mammal will have no rights.

Neither will mice or rats.

If NIH grants are stopped, researchers can't pay anyone. They can't perform research. They can't pay for veterinary services.

They won't be required to provide veterinary services.

The only medical research that will happen will be self funded by big pharma, and they can torture the animals and skew all the lab results that they want.

Just like Musk did to the primates in his neuralink research.

I don't know what's going to happen to me or anyone else at the university where I work. My job is to make sure the animals are treated humanely and to provide veterinary care. I'm especially scared about what's going to happen to those research animals if veterinary staff gets laid off. The USDA only covers mammals, and it doesn't even cover all of them. Every rat I've ever made a tiny paper gift box full of marshmallows for, every mouse I've ever watched grow up, every rodent I've ever separated from an aggressive dominant brother and then treated their tiny wounds, they have no protections if NIH goes down. Decades of research into humane handling, euthanasia, and animal behavior will be tossed aside and wasted.

Please, do everything you can. Protest. Contact your representatives. Anything you can do. Do it for science, for medicine, for people's lives, for people's jobs, and for the animals.

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Things the Biden-Harris Administration Did This Week #31

August 9-16 2024

President Biden and Vice-President Harris announced together the successful conclusion of the first negotiations between Medicare and pharmaceutical companies over drug prices. For years Medicare was not allow to directly negotiate princes with drug companies leaving seniors to pay high prices. It has been a Democratic goal for many years to change this. President Biden noted he first introduced a bill to allow these negotiations as a Senator back in 1973. Thanks to Inflation Reduction Act, passed with no Republican support using Vice-President Harris' tie breaking vote, this long time Democratic goal is now a reality. Savings on these first ten drugs are between 38% and 79% and will collectively save seniors $1.8 billion dollars in out of pocket costs. This comes on top of the Biden-Harris Administration already having capped the price of insulin for Medicare's 3.5 million diabetics at $35 a month, as well as the Administration's plan to cap Medicare out of pocket drug costs at $2,000 a year starting January 2025.

President Biden and Vice President Harris have launched a wide ranging all of government effort to crack down on companies wasting customers time with excessive paperwork, hold times, and robots rather than real people. Some of the actions from the "Time is Money" effort include: The FTC and FCC putting forward rules that require companies to make canceling a subscription or service as easy as signing up for it. The Department of Transportation has required automatic refunds for canceled flights. The CFPB is working on rules to require companies to have to allow customers to speak to a real person with just one button click ending endless "doom loops" of recored messages. The CFPB is also working on rules around chatbots, particularly their use from banks. The FTC is working on rules to ban companies from posting fake reviews, suppressing honest negative reviews, or paying for  positive reviews. HHS and the Department of Labor are taking steps to require insurance companies to allow health claims to be submitted online. All these actions come on top of the Biden Administration's efforts to get rid of junk fees.

President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden announced further funding as part of the President's Cancer Moonshot. The Cancer Moonshot was launched by then Vice-President Biden in 2016 in the aftermath of his son Beau Biden's death from brain cancer in late 2015. It was scrapped by Trump as political retaliation against the Obama-Biden Administration. Revived by President Biden in 2022 it has the goal of cutting the number of cancer deaths in half over the next 25 years, saving 4 million lives. Part of the Moonshot is Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), grants to help develop cutting edge technology to prevent, detect, and treat cancer. The President and First Lady announced $150 million in ARPA-H grants this week focused on more successful cancer surgeries. With grants to Tulane, Rice, Johns Hopkins, and Dartmouth, among others, they'll help fund imaging and microscope technology that will allow surgeons to more successfully determine if all cancer has been remove, as well as medical imaging focused on preventing damage to healthy tissues during surgeries.

Vice-President Harris announced a 4-year plan to lower housing costs. The Vice-President plans on offering $25,000 to first time home buyers in down-payment support. It's believed this will help support 1 million first time buyers a year. She also called for the building of 3 million more housing units, and a $40 billion innovation fund to spur innovative housing construction. This adds to President Biden's call for a $10,000 tax credit for first time buyers and calls by the President to punish landlords who raise the rent by over 5%.

President Biden Designates the site of the 1908 Springfield Race Riot a National Monument. The two day riot in Illinois capital took place just blocks away from Abraham Lincoln's Springfield home. In August 1908, 17 people die, including a black infant, and 2,000 black refugees were forced to flee the city. As a direct result of the riot, black community leaders and white allies met a few months later in New York and founded the NAACP. The new National Monument will seek to preserve the history and educate the public both on the horrible race riot as well as the foundation of the NAACP. This is the second time President Biden has used his authority to set up a National Monument protecting black history, after setting up the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument on Emmett Till's 82nd birthday July 25th 2023.

The Department of The Interior announced $775 million to help cap and clean up orphaned oil and gas wells. The money will help cap wells in 21 states. The Biden-Harris Administration has allocated $4.7 billion to plug orphaned wells, a billion of which has already been distributed. More than 8,200 such wells have been capped since the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in 2022. Orphaned wells leak toxins into communities and are leaking the super greenhouse gas methane. Plugging them will not only improve the health of nearby communities but help fight climate change on a global level.

Vice-President Harris announced plans to ban price-gouging in the food and grocery industries. This would be a first ever federal ban on price gouging and Harris called for clear "rules of the road" on price rises in food, and strong penalties from the FTC for those who break them. This is in line with President Biden's launching of a federal Strike Force on Unfair and Illegal Pricing in March, and Democratic Senator Bob Casey's bill to ban "shrinkflation". In response to this pressure from Democrats on price gouging and after aggressive questions by Senator Casey and Senator Elizabeth Warren, the supermarket giant Kroger proposed dropping prices by a billion dollars

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Sarah Jones and Jason Easley at PoliticusUSA:

Joe Biden made cancer research a priority, so Trump has come into office and cut off funding for cancer research and clinical trials.

The Guardian noted, “Researchers on social media spoke about cancer research grinding to a halt as participants wait for experimental treatments and the effects the shutdown would have on universities and scientific advancement around the world.” One of those researchers was Dr. Chrystal Starbird who posted on Bluesky, “My mother-in-law is literally about to start a treatment regimen including a very recently approved drug for late stage cancer discovered by someone I formerly collaborated with. This delay matters to people like her.” The delay, according to the Trump administration is supposed to end on February 1, but researchers are warning such a long delay could be devastating for patients and future research. [...] Don’t focus on Trump’s statements or antics because they don’t mean anything. It is performative theater that is intended to be a distraction. Instead, focus on the fact that on his first full day in office, Donald Trump signed an executive order that harmed cancer patients.

This is yet another thing the Evil 47 Misadministration is doing.

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it's so frustrating when somebody makes a really good point about misogyny but has to go out of their way to exclude transgender men from the discussion when discussing things that very explicitly include us. i don't mean just forgetting we exist or using cissexist language i mean specifically going out of your way to say that obviously we must somehow be exempt from, say, abortion bans, for no real reason other than to be exclusionary.

and like i know the answer from most people is lol whatever suck it up that's how it is being a minority but you know, i've been doing that, and it gets a bit tiring to be told that problems that directly affect you and others like you aren't worth caring about and that you wanting people to remember you exist is like, asserting your toxic masculine energy or whatever.

i just want people to remember that trans men can get pregnant and might be perceived as women and discriminated against for without explicitly misgendering us in the process. especially since that misgendering is often not accidental cissexism but can in fact be a deliberate attempt to force us to detransition if we want to benefit from feminism in terms of abortion rights or hate crime laws or workplace discrimination.

like it's not me being sensitive about language it's not wanting a movement that concerns me and my rights to forget i exist or deliberately exclude me. because when well meaning cis woman feminists forget about trans men you open the door for people that are not well-meaning to deliberately fuck us over. that's all.

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elon musk did a nazi salute twice at the inauguration, and republicans are defending him.

trump revoked executive order 11246, which prohibited discrimination.

trump put all dei employees on leave to be fired.

trump blamed the dc plane crash on dei.

trump banned all lgbtq+ flags from being hung in government buildings.

trump ordered the pentagon to cancel celebration of mlk jr. day, black history month, women's history month, holocaust remembrance day, asian american pacific islander heritage month, lgbtq+ pride month, juneteenth, women's equality day, national hispanic heritage month, national disability employment awarenessmonth, and national american indian heritage month.

trump proposed removing all palestinians from gaza, turning the area into a vacation resort called “riviera of the middle east”.

trump rolled back biden’s executive order to lower prescription drug costs for people using medicare and medicaid.

trump rescinded the $35 cap on insulin, and prices are expected to rise to $1500 a month.

trump ordered the national institutes of health to cancel their review panels on cancer research.

trump ended the guidelines to prevent ai misuse. the guidelines prevent many things, but notably it prevents production of ai child pornography.

when sean hannity asked trump about the economy, he said “i don’t care”, after campaigning with the economy as his main talking point.

trump has withdrawn the us from the world health organization.

trump is ordering health agencies to stop reporting on bird flu and halt publications of scientific reports.

trump has pardoned over 1500 people who stormed the capitol on january 6th.

trump changed mount denali back to mount mckinley.

trump signed an executive order to rename the gulf of mexico to gulf of america.

trump shut down cbp one, an app which granted legal entry to 1 million+ immigrants.

trump is allowing ice raids at churches and elementary schools.

trump announced plans to declare a national emergency at the us-mexico border.

trump signed an executive order to expand the use of the death penalty.

trump disbanded the school safety board that works to prevent school shootings. it was comprised of survivors, educators, and gun violence prevention advocates and formed after the school shooting in parkland.

trump withdrew from the paris climate act.

trump revoked all protections for transgender troops in the us military.

trump rescinded executive orders made by biden that benefited and protected women, lgbtq+ people, black americans, hispanic americans, asian americans, native hawaiians, and pacific islanders.

trump is attempting to make it legal to refuse to hire or fire pregnant women.

multiple state legislators are drafting bills to allow the punishment for abortion to be the death penalty.

trump pardoned 23 individuals convicted under the freedom of access to clinic entrances (FACE) act for their anti-abortion activism, including oftentimes violent protests at abortion clinics.

trump signed an executive order allowing deportation of foreign students who they believe express support for hamas or hezbollah.

trump announced that the us government will from here on out only recognize male and female as sexes. intersex is not legally recognized anymore.

the trump administration paused health communications to prevent the fda from announcing food recalls.

andy ogles drafted a constitutional amendment to allow trump to be president for a third term.

georgia republican congressman mike collins called for the deportation of new jersey born mariann budde, the bishop who urged trump to “have mercy” on the lgbtq+ community and immigrants during a service at the national cathedral.

six states (arizona, idaho, iowa, kansas, mississippi, and north dakota) are planning on challenging obergefell v. hodges, which would end same-sex marriage nationwide. about a dozen more states have representatives are also considering filing similar resolutions.

amazon revoked protections for lgbtq+ and black employees.

the cdc has removed their hiv prevention page.

the united states state department has officially changed its “travelers with special conditions” page which previously said “lgbtqi+ travelers” to “lgb travelers”, completely getting rid of the tqi+.

every single republican told us we were overreacting. trump swore he had nothing to do with project 2025 yet continues implementing details outlined in it. not a single person has the right to tell us we’re being dramatic anymore.

hope “cheaper eggs and gas” was worth it.

EDIT: i removed the “trump refused to swear on the bible” point because it was being taken as me being an offended christian. i’m not christian, im agnostic. the reason i included it in the first place is because he’s the first president in history to ever refuse to swear on ANYTHING. meanwhile his “conservative christian” followers had no issue with this, and decided to continue to scramble for excuses instead of admitting he may not be as religious as he claims he is. i figured taking that point out entirely is probably better than filling this with an explanation in the middle of the other important issues.

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More cancer, diabetes and mental illness medicines exempted by BIR from Value-Added Tax (VAT)

Some good news for those who need medicine but have limited financial resources. The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) announced that several more medicines for cancer, diabetes and mental illness have officially been declared exempted from the Value-Added Tax (VAT), according to a GMA Network news report. To put things in perspective, posted below is an excerpt from the GMA news report. Some…

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Tips to Avoid Holiday Weight Gain

The end of the year is very festive because of several holidays. During this time we also eat a lot of delicious foods and drink a lot more out of merriment and cheer.

A study conducted by the New England Journal of Medicine states that the average American gained an average of one (1) pound during the holiday season.

It may not sound like a lot but this weight is carried on into Spring and Summer time.

“Many people who generally manage their weight year-round may feel a lack of control over the holidays, especially after such a trying year,” says Jayne A. Lieb, MD, assistant professor of surgery at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and a bariatric (weight-loss) surgeon at NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital.

When holiday weight gain isn’t lost, the cycle of putting on extra pounds over one’s lifetime continues, which can increase the risk of many diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, Lieb says.

Here, Lieb offers strategies for keeping your weight in check while also enjoying the holidays.

1. Stick to a routine

It is easy to deviate from structured mealtimes and usual exercise in the name of celebration. This lack of structure may increase one’s tendency to overeat during the holidays or gravitate toward high-sugar food choices.

2. Eat protein in the morning

A high-protein breakfast can keep blood sugar and “hunger hormones” more stable throughout the day, which can help control appetite. Some suggestions: egg-white omelets, Greek yogurt, and protein shakes.

3. Get adequate sleep

While we may not be out late at large holiday events this year, the pandemic has disrupted sleep routines. Too little sleep or nonrestorative sleep may stimulate weight gain-inducing hormones.

4. Limit alcohol

Many people enjoy a few more drinks than their norm over the holidays, but a significant increase in alcohol—especially mixed drinks with high-sugar content—can lead to increased caloric intake. If you choose to drink, sticking to clear liquors with club soda while limiting beer, wine, and mixed drinks is a good approach, in moderation.

5. Exercise early in the day

Getting even 10 minutes of HIIT (high-intensity interval training) in at the start of the day will keep your metabolism revved and ensure you don’t miss a workout if your day gets busy later on.

6. Try a protein preload

Having a protein-rich snack like a shake or bar an hour before a holiday meal will allow for more self-control.

7. Eat strategically

Fill up on vegetables before you reach for the high-carbohydrate hors d’oeuvres. Starting the evening with crudités will lead to longer-lasting fullness and less space for non-nutritious foods.

8. Don’t deprive yourself

The holidays are a time to enjoy many types of food. Indulge mindfully by eating small portions of several things you want to taste rather than filling your plate with large servings of a few dishes.

Source: Columbia University Irving Medical Center