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When Health Care is Unjust

A confessed killer who damaged his liver in a botched suicide attempt was given a transplant ahead of a cancer sufferer who has been waiting for more than a year for an organ, the New York Post reported Monday.

New York City resident Kerry Sullivan, 53, must wait for a cadaver liver from an elderly donor or find his own living donor, while Johnny Concepcion, 42, got a transplant days after he confessed to fatally stabbing his wife and downing rat poison in a suicide attempt that destroyed his liver.

Support National Blood Cancer Awareness Month

Act Now - Support National Blood Cancer Awareness Month Resolution

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Recognizing the need for increased education, research and advocacy for people whose lives have been affected by a blood cancer diagnosis, U.S. Reps. Walter Jones and Betsy Markey have introduced a Congressional resolution that would designate September 2010 as Blood Cancer Awareness Month. Urge your U.S. Representative to become a co-sponsor of this Congressional resolution.

Take Action Now!

Support National Blood Cancer Awareness Month

Act Now - Support National Blood Cancer Awareness Month Resolution

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Recognizing the need for increased education, research and advocacy for people whose lives have been affected by a blood cancer diagnosis, U.S. Reps. Walter Jones and Betsy Markey have introduced a Congressional resolution that would designate September 2010 as Blood Cancer Awareness Month. Urge your U.S. Representative to become a co-sponsor of this Congressional resolution.

Take Action Now!

I'd like vaccines for Cancer, Nazis, and Neo-McCarthyism

The world would be more lovely if our immune system could distinguish between healthy cells and cancer cells.

Imagine a successful immune response to a potentially malignant cellular mutation the moment it occurs—cancer would be no more threatening than the common cold. Unfortunately our immune systems don't see anything wrong with cancer cells, so most often, they let them be.

Summer Treats for Nausea or Mouth Problems

A friend of mine on Facebook recommended popsicles this morning, and I was so glad she did - if you struggle with feeling nauseous or have uncomfortable sores in your mouth, sometimes finding anything to eat feels impossible.

Particularly now that it's summer for most of our readers, whipping up some home popsicles is the perfect summer treat. Plus, you can sneak in some fruit, veggies, or yogurt to make them even healthier.

Here are some recipes to get you started:

Cashing in on cancer's eye-catching currency: The coming IVF storm

Maybe you've read the alarming medical headline recently, stating that children born by In Vitro fertilization (IVF) are at an increased risk of developing cancer.

Maybe you've read that these kids have a 42% higher chance of developing cancer than their non-IVF peers.

Maybe you've read that kids born by IVF have a shocking 87% chance of receiving a cancer diagnosis before the age of 3 than their non-IVF peers.

If you haven't read it yet, you will.

The many shades of hope

Ads for the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, many of which I find morally reprehensible, stress that "hope is a mainstay, hope is everything". It may be a mainstay, but it ain't everything; not in the manner they're offering it.

Still, hope is a term that pervades cancer chatter. Patients need hope. Caregivers and loved ones need hope. Even oncologists and health pros need hope.

Cancer is that kind of disease. It has a sufficiently gloomy reputation. It elicits hope on reflex.

New Programs for Young Adults Facing Cancer

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is now offering weekly online chats and periodic interactive webcasts for young adults 18 to 39-years-old facing cancer. To learn more and to register visit: www.lls.org/yaconnect.

An atheist in the chemo ward

I read today at Vanity Fair's web site that one of my favorite writers, Christopher Hitchens, will undergo chemotherapy for cancer of the esophagus. Hitchens is a noted atheist. So am I. Well I'm not a noted atheist but I am an atheist.

And as any atheist will tell you, atheism gets a bad rap.

It's a dirty word, Atheism.

It's got a long association with foxholes. There may not be any atheists in foxholes, I don't know, never been in one. But foxholes don't seem as prevalent in the world as they once were, making this saying increasingly irrelevant.

NCI Cooperative Group Program in Need of an Overhaul

According to a recent study released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the NCI's clinical trials cooperative group program needs a major overhaul to conduct the type of large-scale clinical trials needed to improve cancer care. Since the program's inception, it has played a key role in developing and improving cancer treatments, and supports an average of 25,000 patients and 14,000 clinical investigators each year.

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