Introduction

 

Cancer treatment may add expenses or reduce income-earning time. It helps to get your financial bearings upfront.

Whether you have health insurance or not, you can learn how to cover your costs and avoid worry through the information in the links in the column to the right. There you'll find details on everything from insurance-policy language to government programs that can help.

Latest Cancer News
FDA, CDC say Merck's Gardasil shot remains safe

July 22, 2008 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A review of health problems reported after women and girls received Merck & Co's Gardasil vaccine shows it remains safe and effective for protecting against infection with a virus that causes cervical cancer, U.S. officials said on Tuesday.

Technology uses tobacco plants to fight cancer

July 22, 2008 — CHICAGO (Reuters) - A personalized vaccine made using tobacco plants -- normally associated with causing cancer rather than helping cure it -- could aid people with lymphoma in fighting the disease, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

New drug helps shrink prostate tumors: study

July 22, 2008 — LONDON (Reuters) - A once-a-day pill significantly shrank tumors in men with advanced prostate cancer who had not responded to other treatments, researchers said on Tuesday.

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