Brittany Maynard Dead – Suffering Brain Cancer

Brittany Maynard Dead

Twenty-nine year-old Brittany Maynard’s public story of bravely enduring brain cancer touched the hearts of millions of Americans. She died peacefully on Saturday, Nov. 1 in her Portland home, surrounded by family and friends.

Brittany suffered increasingly frequent and longer seizures, severe head and neck pain, and stroke-like symptoms. As symptoms grew more severe she chose to abbreviate the dying process by taking the aid-in-dying medication she had received months ago. This choice is authorized under the Oregon Death With Dignity Act. She died as she intended – peacefully in her bedroom, in the arms of her loved ones.

Brittany’s family requests that the media respect their wish to mourn her loss privately. They have released an official obituary, cut and pasted below and available atwww.TheBrittanyFund.org.

“Brittany has died, but her love of life and nature, her passion and spirit endure,” said Compassion & Choices President Barbara Coombs Lee. “In Brittany’s memory, do what matters most. And tell those you love how much they matter to you. We will work to carry on her legacy of bringing end-of-life choice to all Americans.”

Source: http://fox2now.com/2014/11/02/terminally-ill-brittany-maynard-ends-her-life-according-to-report/

 

Canadian Cancer Treatment Options and New Trend

Cancer incidence and treatment-related costs are rising in Canada. The cancer medical centers use and costs in the first year after diagnosis for patients with 7 common types of cancer in Ontario to examine temporal trends in patterns of care and costs. Methods We selected patients aged 19–44 years who had received a diagnosis of melanoma, breast cancer (female only), testicular cancer or thyroid cancer, in addition to patients aged 45 years and older who had received a diagnosis of breast (female only), prostate, lung or colorectal cancer, between 1997 and 2007. Patients were identified from the Ontario Cancer Registry. Using linked administrative databases, centers determined use and costs of chemotherapy, cancer radiotherapy, cancer-related surgery, other admissions to hospital and home care.

New reports about Canadian cancer treatment

A new report says Canadian cancer patients need to have fair and equal access to the newest forms of “targeted therapy” when it comes to cancer drugs and testing, so that patients across the county can get the best care and treatment. In its annual Report Card on Cancer in Canada, the Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada highlights that there have been great strides in developing better, more efficient and cost-effective cancer treatments in recent years. Cost of cancer treatment depends on conditions.

Canadian cancer treatments

Cure For Cancer Found In Canada

This is one of the most ground breaking things imaginable with a certain impact if it came to fruition. The cure for cancer.One of the most feared things a doctor could tell you, is that you have cancer. For most this means you completely tune out every other word the doctor says and your mind goes racing into another dimension. You probably think about your life, the things you have and have not done. The road ahead of you to attempt to combat this horrible disease. Maybe even the costs and potential debt you or your family may accrue from the dreaded C word.

Canadians worried about cancer treatment costs

A new poll says 85% of Canadians feel if they were diagnosed with cancer, the cost of drugs would have a negative impact on their personal finances.Andrew Goodridge, a Fredericton, N.B., resident with colorectal cancer, said he would’ve gone bankrupt without the support of his family and friends.Many new cancer drugs need to be taken at home and aren’t covered by the publicly funded health system.According to the Canadian Cancer Society, about three-quarters of the take-home drugs cost over $20,000 for a single course of treatment, and the average cost for a newer drug is $65,000.

Treatment for Breast Cancer in Canada

There are several ways to treat breast cancer, depending on the type and stage of the cancer as well as other factors. Usually, two or more methods are used in combination. Local treatment methods take effect only in the area of the body where they are applied. Surgery and radiation therapy are examples of local treatments. Systemic treatment methods take effect in the entire body. Chemotherapy, hormone therapy and HER-2 therapy are systemic treatments.

Kidney cancer treatment

For the first time, a consensus meeting of Canadian experts in kidney cancer was held in January, 2008 in Mont Tremblant Québec. A report was developed outlining guidelines in the treatment of kidney cancer. Kidney cancer experts met again in 2009, 2011 and 2013 and updated these guidelines.

Canadian Cancer hospitals, clinics and centres

Ottawa Integrative Cancer Clinic and Centre

The clinic and staff members are the first integrative cancer care and research centre in central and eastern Canada, established to improve quality of life for those touched by cancer. Through clinical practice, research and education, we strive to assess and reduce possible causes of cancer while exploring innovative integrative treatments. Many people living with cancer seek complementary support alongside their conventional treatments. Why? Complementary therapies can significantly improve a patient’s quality of life by decreasing toxicity and side effects, strengthening the immune system, and supporting the body’s healing ability. We work with our patients and where possible collaborate with their oncologists, surgeons, and family doctors to develop therapeutic programs that help sustain wellness during and after treatment.

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

Producing advances in the scientific understanding of cancer in order to deliver more effective therapies and practices requires enormous investment, ingenuity and expertise. Being referred to (cited) frequently by subsequent research papers is a means to communicate these advances. It is also an important indicator of research influence and impact.

 

Medical Tourism Centers – Florida Medical Clinics

Florida medical center

Florida is continue to be an international destination for people seeking top medical care. Florid growing in medical tourism for every sector of medical. Florida lawmakers may vote to spend millions of dollars to encourage sick people to use local health care services — just not the hundreds of thousands of poor and uninsured people who actually live in the Sunshine State. The Florida state Senate’s Commerce and Tourism committee unanimously backed a bill on Tuesday that would appropriate $5 million in 2015 for attracting medical tourism — a burgeoning industry in which people travel to other countries to seek health care that is either too expensive or too difficult to access in their own. If the full legislature passes the funding, Florida’s tourism arm will direct a marketing campaign that plays up the state’s health care providers and specialty medical services to an international audience. Florida medical clinics FMC continues to expand and recently opened a $5 million facility in Zephryhills where the business is headquartered.

Florida Medical Clinics And centers

North Florida Medical Centers, Inc. (NFMC) consists of 12 community health centers located throughout North Florida that provide a quality and affordable medical care and dental care home for the entire family. We are proud of what we do and we live by our mission every day at each of our centers. We work endlessly to increase awareness about the importance of healthy lifestyles and preventive practices and to improve the health of our communities. Most insurance is accepted, including Blue Cross / Blue Shield, Medicare and Medicaid and more. We offer a sliding fee discount program and a discount prescription program for our patients.

St. Luke’s Medical and Dental Clinic

Provides medical services for uninsured. Also provides dental services (filling & extractions) for those uninsured. Patients are seen by appointment only. The St. Luke’s Medical & Dental Clinic is a program of Catholic Charities of Central Florida in partnership with St. Mary of The Lakes and St. Patrick Catholic Churches. St. Luke’s Free Medical and Dental Clinic provides care to qualified residents of Lake, Marion, North Orange and North Seminole Counties.

Florida Medical Clinic

Florida Medical Clinic recently announced plans to build a three-story medical office building on the Wiregrass Ranch property between the Shops at Wiregrass and Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel. Construction on the 85,000-square-foot facility is scheduled to begin this summer, with plans to open in summer 2015. The building is expected to be home to an estimated 45 to 50 physicians and more than 150 medical employees, supporting 20-plus medical specialties. According to marketing director Janet Wing, those will include family medicine, internal medicine, urgent care, orthopedic surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, nephrology, otolaryngology, psychiatry, pediatrics, cardiology, gastroenterology, urology, neurology and general surgery. Other on-site services will include diagnostic radiology, laboratory and physical therapy.

Seawind Medical Clinic and Centre

Seawind Medical Clinic was established in 2000 to support one of the largest tourist destination and fastest-growing communities in the country. The clinic provides quality, convenient care in the Port area and eastern part of Panama City Beach not only to our residents and college students from the two area institutions, but also our visitors to the Panama City area. We want our tourists to find a home away from home in Panama City. Seawind Medical Clinic provides services to tourists needing medical attention during their visit, including elderly visitors who often have ongoing medical needs.

Florida Medical Clinic Urgent Care Center

Florida Medical Clinic Urgent Care is an urgent care center in Zephyrhills, FL located at 38107 Market Sq., . They are open 7 days a week seeing walk-in patients in Zephyrhills. Florida Medical Clinic Urgent Care appears to be individually owned and operated and not part of a larger network of urgent care clinics. There are, however, 2 walk-in clinics within 20 miles of Zephyrhills in cities including Dade City and Wesley Chapel.