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When my dad died, I realized life insurance was a priority, but it doesn't cover everything I need. After that ordeal, I decided to up my life insurance to ensure that my family wouldn't face the same troubles if I died unexpectedly. It was important to me that — on top of paying funeral costs — my life insurance policy also covered our home's mortgage. Unlike critical illness insurance, cancer insurance only covers costs associated with cancer. While different health insurance plans offer different treatment coverages, Aflac's cancer insurance offers supplemental coverage that covers several treatment options.

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Prices for prescription pharmaceutical drugs have skyrocketed, disproportionately making them harder for people of color to afford, a new report finds. Black people in the U.S. are more likely to be diagnosed with the condition and die from it, the report highlights. Several health care advocacy organizations, including Patients for Affordable Drugs and Health Care for America Now, are pushing for policies that will help lower the financial burden of patients. Both organizations supported the Inflation Reduction Act, a law signed by President Joe Biden that aims to reduce prescription drug prices. In the meantime, Basey, of Patients for Affordable Drugs, said her organization continues to push for bills like S.142, which prevents pharmaceutical companies from paying generic brands to delay the release of their drugs on the market.

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☆ A surfer without a degree is worth $16 billion after his biotech company's stock soared 1,100% in a year
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Theron Mohamed | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The company's stock price has surged by over 1,100% in the past 12 months, lifting its market value to over $16 billion. Summit stock jumped from about $12 on September 6 to a record high of $32 on September 13, but has retreated to around $23 since then. Spurred on by his son's death from brain cancer, Duggan started building a stake in Pharmacyclics, a maker of cancer drugs, in 2004. Pharmaceutical titan AbbVie bought the business for $21 billion in cash and stock in 2015, netting Duggan more than $3 billion, per Bloomberg. He joined Summit's board in 2019 and became CEO and chairman in 2020, making cancer drugs his principal focus.

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A chemical gas leak from a rail tanker near Cincinnati prompted fears of an explosion and evacuation orders for people within at least a half-mile radius of the incident. Firefighters try to contain a dangerous chemical leak from a train car in Whitewater Township, Ohio. The threat for the community 22 miles east-northeast of Cincinnati is that the rail car tank has been heating up and will explode if it continues, Siefke said. It wasn't yet clear who owns the rail car or its cargo, officials said Tuesday night. Whitewater Township and Hamilton County officials said the situation will likely remain static overnight as they await input from environmental agencies.

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☆ Princess Kate makes first public appearance after cancer treatment
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Freddie Clayton | Freddie Clayton Is A Freelance Journalist Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

LONDON — Princess Kate has made her first public appearance since announcing that she had completed chemotherapy and would be returning to some public duties. Joined by her husband, Prince William, she was seen attending a Sunday service at Crathie Kirk, a church near the family's royal Balmoral estate in Scotland. In early September, Kate released a deeply personal video message saying she had completed treatment for an undisclosed form of cancer that was detected after abdominal surgery earlier in the year. Kate had already appeared in public since she revealed she was undergoing cancer treatment in March, including at Trooping the Colour, an annual military parade to celebrate the birthday of the British monarch. He has also returned to public duties after temporarily stopping most of his engagements following the diagnosis.

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☆ Pa. health system agrees to $65 million settlement after hackers leaked nude photos of cancer patients
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-23 | by ( Sean Lyngaas | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —A Pennsylvania health care system this month agreed to pay $65 million to victims of a February 2023 ransomware attack after hackers posted nude photos of cancer patients online, according to the victims’ lawyers. Eighty percent of the $65-million settlement is set aside for victims whose nude photos were published online. The ransomware attack “was limited to the network supporting one physician practice located in Lackawanna County,” the Lehigh statement continued. A February ransomware attack on a major health insurance billing firm cut off health providers from billions of dollars and put some health clinics on the brink of bankruptcy. A full-scale ransomware attack on a health care provider has many costs aside from potential lawsuits, from rebuilding computer systems to retaining legal counsel, Henderson said.

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☆ J&J subsidiary files for bankruptcy to advance $8 billion talc settlement
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

J&J’s Red River Talc unit made its filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. J&J faces lawsuits from more than 62,000 claimants who alleged that its baby powder and other talc products were contaminated with asbestos and caused ovarian and other cancers. After being rebuffed twice by federal courts, New Brunswick New Jersey-based J&J is attempting again to end the litigation in a so-called “Texas two-step” bankruptcy. J&J said the Red River unit filed the bankruptcy case after it received support of about 83% of current claimants for the proposed bankruptcy plan. The goal is to use the proceeding to force all plaintiffs into one settlement, without requiring J&J itself to file for bankruptcy.

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☆ Catherine, Princess of Wales goes back to work, days after cancer treatment update
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-18 | by ( Lauren Said-Moorhouse | Max Foster | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

London CNN —Catherine, Princess of Wales has held her first engagement since revealing that she has completed her chemotherapy treatment. Kate, 42 – who is married to the heir to the British throne, Prince William – resumed work by hosting a meeting at Windsor Castle on Tuesday. Kate had been receiving a course of chemotherapy for an unspecified form of cancer since February and has only made a few public appearances in the months since. During her treatment, Kate is known to have been working from home, taking meetings with her team and representatives from her early-years center. She is also expected to attend the annual Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph in London in November, honoring those who have served in war.

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☆ Black women are more likely than white women to die of all types of breast cancer
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-17 | by ( Kaitlin Sullivan | Kaitlin Sullivan Is A Contributor For Nbcnews.Com Who Has Worked With Nbc News Investigations. She Reports On Health | Science | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Black women are more likely than white women to die from even the most treatable types of breast cancer, a study published Tuesday in the Journal of Clinical Oncology found. While Black women and white women are diagnosed with breast cancer at similar rates, Black women are 40% more likely to die from the disease. For those with HR-positive, HER2-positive tumors, Black women were 34% more likely to die than white women. Black women were 17% more likely to die from triple-negative breast cancer than white women, a finding that surprised Warner. “If you look at breast cancer data from 40 years ago, there really weren’t differences in mortality for breast cancer between Black and white women.

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☆ Drugmakers bet billions that targeted radiation could become the next cancer breakthrough
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Angelica Peebles | In Angelicapeebles | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

watch nowDrugmakers are betting that delivering radiation directly to tumors will become the next big cancer breakthrough. That can allow the treatment to deliver radiation to cancer cells and spare the rest of the body from the level of damage that comes with many cancer drugs. For Pluvicto, patients come in once every six weeks for up to six treatments. One opportunity Bristol Myers Squibb sees is combining radiopharmaceuticals with existing cancer drugs like immunotherapy, said Robert Plenge, Bristol's chief research officer. But she thinks the technology will become an important part of cancer drugs in the next decade.

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☆ A woman lost 190 pounds from exercise, food journaling, and GLP-1 medication. She's now training for a marathon.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-16 | by ( Julia Pugachevsky | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

After hiking one mile in the park with her son one day, she realized she felt peaceful afterward. AdvertisementBrown has since lost 190 lbs — 100 pounds from walking, running and dietary changes, and the rest with help from GLP-1 medications, which can assist in dealing with "food noise" and cravings. She started by walking and changing her dietBefore she started running, Brown lost around 70 pounds from walking a few miles every day and making some dietary changes. She ran one mile a day for a monthA few years later, Brown got bored with walking and wanted to try running. She challenged herself to run one mile daily for a month, only running on the treadmill in her house.

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☆ Women say they were abused for years by Oregon family doctor
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-15 | by ( Meena Duerson | Meridith Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +22 min

The family doctorIn the Oregon community where Nicole Snow grew up, Dr. David Farley was always there. Recounting the same anecdote he’d told Snow, he told Medley he’d once lost a young patient to cervical cancer and needed to do another exam to keep her safe. But again, women like Medley, Snow and Pratt describe feeling belittled or dismissed. After watching a documentary about the gymnasts abused by then-team doctor Larry Nassar, Medley, Pratt and Snow launched a civil suit against Farley. Their lawsuit has been amended multiple times to add women, girls, men and boys who say they too were abused by Farley.

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☆ Some baby boomers are burning through their retirement savings to pay for cancer treatments. Then they have to go back to work.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-15 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | Noah Sheidlower | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

AdvertisementIt's a story all too familiar for some older Americans: An unexpected health crisis derails their retirement planning. With insufficient help from health insurance or Social Security, medical bills eat up any savings or income they have. Jones, who gets $2,200 a month in Social Security, has had to take on part-time work, which made her ineligible for some federal assistance. She paid for chemo out of pocket, spending her way through her retirement savings and maxing out her credit cards. Amend said it's crucial for older Americans to believe everything will be OK, noting "your mindset perpetuates what your outcome will be."

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☆ Pfizer says its experimental drug for deadly condition that causes appetite and weight loss in cancer patients shows positive trial results
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Annika Kim Constantino | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Pfizer 's experimental drug for a common, life-threatening condition that causes cancer patients to lose their appetite and weight showed positive results in a midstage trial, the drugmaker said Saturday. Patients with the condition, called cancer cachexia, who took Pfizer's treatment saw improvements in body weight, muscle mass, quality of life and physical function, according to the drugmaker. The condition affects about 9 million people worldwide, and 80% of cancer patients suffering from it are expected to die within one year of diagnosis, according to the company. Cancer cachexia is currently defined as a loss of 5% or more body weight over the past six months in cancer patients, along with symptoms such as fatigue, according to the National Cancer Institute. Allerton said a work group of experts defines a weight gain of greater than 5% as a "clinically meaningful difference in cancer patients with cachexia."

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LONDON — Kate, the Princess of Wales, announced Monday that she has completed her chemotherapy treatment and will undertake a light schedule of engagements until the end of the year. The princess attended the men’s final at Wimbledon with her daughter in July. Kate, Princess of Wales, at the men's singles final at Wimbledon earlier this year. While Charlotte attended Wimbledon, the princess and her brothers have largely been out of the public eye since their mother's surgery. Charles' and Kate's illnesses have highlighted the challenges faced by a slimmed-down royal family as the king pledges to cut costs.

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☆ Women will soon be notified about their breast density after a mammogram. Here’s what that means
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Jacqueline Howard | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

“The second reason that breast density is important is because having dense breast tissue raises a woman’s level of risk of developing breast cancer,” Feigin said. Breast cancer survivor JoAnn Pushkin, 64, has advocated for more than a decade that there be a national requirement for women to be notified of their breast density. Now I have lymphedema, and all because it was detected at that later stage,” said Pushkin, who has testified before the FDA about breast density and co-created the website DenseBreast-info.org, which features resources on breast density. The new FDA changes require facilities to provide patients with information about their breast density and include specific language in the mammogram result letter to explain how breast density can influence the accuracy of a mammogram. A study published in 2022 found that the breast cancer death rate dropped by 43% within three decades, from 1989 to 2020, translating to 460,000 fewer breast cancer deaths during that time.

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☆ Catherine, Princess of Wales, ‘doing what I can to stay cancer free’ after finishing chemotherapy
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Max Foster | Christian Edwards | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

London CNN —Catherine, Princess of Wales, has said she has completed her chemotherapy and is “doing what I can to stay cancer free,” as she plans to return gradually to public life in the coming months. “Doing what I can to stay cancer free is now my focus,” she continued. “The cancer journey is complex, scary and unpredictable for everyone, especially those closest to you.”Catherine and William stand with their daughter, Princess Charlotte, on the English coast. Her diagnosis stunned the country, coming just weeks after King Charles III announced in February that he had also been diagnosed with cancer. In her initial announcement, Kate stressed she had been advised to undergo a course of “preventative” chemotherapy.

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☆ The breakfast a top nutrition scientist eats for gut health — plus the common foods he avoids
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-23 | by ( Serafina Kenny | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewA top gut-health expert shared his go-to breakfast with Business Insider and common breakfast items that he no longer eats. So Dr. Tim Spector, a British epidemiologist, gut health expert, and cofounder of the science and nutrition company ZOE, has a go-to breakfast combination that he eats every morning that is balanced and gut-healthy. "I used to have granola with some skim milk, orange juice, and tea, and I thought that was a super healthy breakfast," he said. But since swapping to a more gut-friendly breakfast, Spector has found that he stays full "right through to lunch," and his energy levels are consistent all morning. A 2020 review of studies published in the journal Food Frontiers suggested that polyphenols are indeed good for gut health, and also that they help prevent chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular diseases.

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When 36-year-old Nelson Cheney was little, he began eating spicy peppers and sauces to impress his dad. Cheney, known by his social media handle “@craving_capsaicin” — a nod to the chemical compound that gives chili peppers their heat — got hooked on the adrenaline rush he feels when he eats extremely spicy foods. Both sour and spicy foods generate painful responses, though they activate different nerves in the body. “I’ve got so many people that went from not even eating hot stuff to having a tolerance and now eating spicy food daily. Children and teens tend to be most susceptible to social media challenges, which is why Trucco said parents should pay attention, too.

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☆ Biden Awards $150 Million in Research Grants as Part of Cancer ‘Moonshot’
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Zach Montague | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Freed from the campaign trail and the grinding pursuit of another term, President Biden traveled to New Orleans on Tuesday to focus on a project close to his heart: the “moonshot” effort to sharply cut cancer deaths in the United States that he carried over from his time as vice president and has become a hallmark of his presidency. Speaking at Tulane University, Mr. Biden and the first lady, Jill Biden, announced eight research centers, including one at Tulane, that will collectively receive $150 million in research awards aimed at pioneering new methods of precision cancer surgery. Before addressing a crowd on campus, the president and the first lady met with a team of researchers who demonstrated the technology under development at Tulane. It uses imaging of cells on tumor sites to verify for surgeons that cancer cells have been fully removed and to reduce the need for follow-up surgeries. Standing in front of a sign reading “curing cancer faster,” Mr. Biden described touring cancer centers in Australia and Ireland, and being frustrated by a lack of international collaboration.

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☆ With ‘Cancer Moonshot’ announcement, Biden turns to causes most important to him in final months in office
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Kayla Tausche | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

On Tuesday, Biden highlighted $150 million in new research awards to eight organizations, including $23 million to Tulane University, the backdrop for the announcement. I know we can, but it’s not just personal — it’s about what’s possible,” Biden said Tuesday. And the White House will also look to ramp up its diplomatic engagement with India, an ally that has become a critical partner to the US in countering China’s aggression in the region. “We want to create a more prosperous and secure Indo-Pacific and the world,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. Implementation awaitsDomestically, the White House remains focused, first and foremost, on getting money out the door and shovels in the ground on Biden’s signature legislative measures.

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☆ Global cancer deaths among men projected to increase by 93% by 2050, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-12 | by ( Jamie Gumbrecht | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Cancer cases and deaths among men are expected to surge by 2050, according to a study published Monday, with large increases among men age 65 and older. The study projects overall cancer cases among men will increase from 10.3 million in 2022 to 19 million in 2050, an increase of 84%. Cancer deaths were projected to rise from 5.4 million in 2022 to 10.5 million in 2050, an increase of 93%. Countries with a lower-income and life expectancy are also projected to see larger increases in cancer deaths in men. Just as in 2022, lung cancer is projected to be the leading cause of cancer and cancer deaths in men in 2050.

Persons: They’re, Dr, Sanjay Gupta, ”, William Dahut, CNN’s Jacqueline Howard Organizations: CNN, Cancer, CNN Health, American Cancer Society Locations: Australia, Africa, Europe

☆ I planned on retiring this year but was then diagnosed with cancer. Retirement may need to be put off, and I'm devastated.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-10 | by ( Theresa St. John | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

When a yearly mammogram showed something suspicious and turned out to be breast cancer, my world was instantly changed. AdvertisementThe emotional toll of cancer hit me hard; there were so many unknowns now. I had planned for retirement, but that goal no longer felt within my grasp. She explained how regaining control in life — even in small ways — can help alleviate some of the emotions I'm experiencing right now. Even though I'm unsure of the future, I'm working hard to become healthy and strong again.

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Joey Graceffa, a YouTuber known for his vlogs and lifestyle videos, shared that he was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma. Recently, Graceffa said he noticed the mark had scabbed over and a doctor conducted a skin biopsy and determined it was cancer. I'm being very level-headed about this, I think because it's a more treatable type of skin cancer." The American Cancer Society describes basal cell carcinoma as the “most common type of skin cancer.” The cancer “usually develop[s] on sun-exposed areas, especially the face, head, neck, and arms,” the ACS says on its website. Graceffa said he is trying to stay positive and asked for suggestions from any followers who have also had this type of skin cancer and had it treated.

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☆ Perfumes, Candles, Toothpaste — Vanilla Is in Everything. And It’s Under Threat. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Aimee Nezhukumatathil | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Once you notice vanilla, you’ll smell it everywhere. From custard to candles, we live in a world suffused with vanilla. Extracted from the bean pod of a delicate orchid, vanilla must be grown under exceptionally precise conditions along a very narrow band of the earth, between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. In 2017, a Category 4-equivalent cyclone decimated an estimated 30 percent of the vanilla vines in Madagascar, which produces 80 percent of the vanilla used around the globe. As a result, the price of vanilla bean pods surged to nearly $300 a pound.

Organizations: University of Oxford, Karolinska Institute, Cancer Locations: Sweden, Madagascar, Mexico, Tahiti

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