Today, we once again observe World Cancer Day and take a minute to remember cancer’s tremendous impact on our communities and the people we love. Just to summarize: 10 million people die from cancer every year. Cancer is the second-leading cause of death worldwide. The total annual economic cost of cancer is estimated at $1.16 trillion. But it’s also …
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If healthcare isn’t at the top of your list of concerns in 2020, we’d like to find out where you live and maybe move there! Where we live, COVID-19 has been a relentless presence, requiring most of our attention and forcing us to change the way we do almost everything. One of the unfortunate results …
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Today is National Cancer Survivors Day, which gives us a special opportunity to celebrate those who have battled this disease and lived to tell about it. Hats off to all of us! According to the official National Cancer Survivors Day website, there are more than 32 million cancer survivors worldwide — and nearly 17 million in the …
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As much as we loved the report published this month about a record drop in cancer deaths, we cannot forget the horrible toll this disease continues to take. Tonight, we learned of yet another casualty of this cruel disease. Wyatt Spann, a 4-year-old from Winfield, Ala., died today after fighting medulloblastoma for the past year. We …
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Nobody is more interested than those of us with serious diseases in finding ways to make medical treatments more affordable. And nobody is more interested than we are in making sure that those treatments are accessible. We need both, and we don’t think these two goals should be mutually exclusive. We were happy to join …
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