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The Spirit of Easter

Something special seems to happen every year when Easter arrives. The focus on furry bunnies and fuzzy ducks and lots ...
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Dealing With the Physical Scars from Breast Cancer Surgery

For just about every breast cancer patient, either a lumpectomy or mastectomy will be a part of your treatment. And ...
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A Call to Action for Women’s Medical Rights With Breast Cancer

I am not an activist for any cause, especially if it relates to anything that may have political or religious ...
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CA Assembly Bill 1268 – Prior Treatment Authorization For Cancer Patients

For some time now, I have been writing about and sharing information about the effects that prior authorization regulations have ...
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Taking Responsibility for Our Own Cancer Treatment

Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedInI have a theory. If everyone of us took the time to consider the consequences of our ...
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When Should Women Stop Getting Mammograms

Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedInI recently received the following email from my sister who is also a breast cancer survivor: “I ...
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Breast Cancer Answers from Diagnosis to Forever

Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedInIf you happen to be someone who has seen my social media sharings during the last several ...
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Why Don’t We Advocate for Our Own Health Issues – Even Cancer

Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedInIf you asked most people whether they want to become involved in their own medical health and ...
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News and stories selected by Barbara

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Medical care was never intended to be daily fights against insurance companies
/ acupuncture, biofeedback, cancer, In The News, insurance approvals, non-drug treatment, pain treatment
By: Robert Bonakdar, MD From: kevinmd.com Last month I saw Joan, a woman who has had low back pain for ...
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Major step towards individual cancer immunotherapy
/ cancer, ETH Zurich, immune system, In The News, personalized vaccine, t cells
By: Fabio Bergamin From: medicalxpress.com T cells become active in the body only when they recognise a peptide located on ...
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Are You Dense?
/ amendments to current regulations, Breast Cancer, dense breasts, FDA, In The News, proposed changes
By: Bonnie Annis From: curetoday.com Are you dense? I’m not referring to your mental abilities, I’m referring to your breasts ...
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Public domain antibiotic found highly effective against triple-negative breast cancer
/ Breast Cancer, clofazimine, doxorubicin, In The News, triple negative, University of Geneva
Source: University of Geneva From: medicalxpress.com Of the three major subtypes of breast cancer, triple negative is the most lethal ...
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PBM Delays for Cancer Drugs May Risk Lives, Warn Oncologists
/ cancer, cancer treatment, delayed approvals, In The News, PBM authorization, pharmacy benefit manager
By: Alicia Ault From: medscape.com The patient had metastatic kidney cancer, and his oncologist was seeking to treat him with ...
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Clinical Trial News By Barbara

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UC San Diego Health treats 1st cancer patient with stem-cell derived natural killer cells
/ clincal trial, Clinical Trials, FT500, Phase I, Stage IV colon cancer, stem cell-based medicine, UC San Diego
Source: University of California-SanDiego From: eurekalert.org After 10 years in remission, Derek Ruff's cancer returned, this time as stage IV ...
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Immunotherapy combination effective for patients with rare neuroendocrine cancer
/ clinical trial, Clinical Trials, DART, digestive tract, immunotherapy, lungs, rare neuroendocrine tumors, SWOG
Source: SWOG From: eurekalert.org A combination of two common immunotherapy drugs shrinks rare, aggressive neuroendocrine tumors, according to new research ...
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Imvax Announces Positive Results from Clinical Trial of Novel IGV-001 Autologous Cell Vaccine in Treating Patients with Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma
/ clinical trial, Clinical Trials, glioblastoma multiforme, IGV-001, Imvax Inc., phase 1b
Source: Globe Newswire From: apnews.co Median overall survival was 21.9 months for highest vaccine dose vs. 14.6 months in published ...
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Seattle Genetics Completes Enrollment in Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Tisotumab Vedotin in Recurrent or Metastatic Cervical Cancer
/ clinical trial, Clinical Trials, completed enrollment, innovaTV 204, metastatic cervical cancer, Phase 2, recurrent cervical cancer, Seattle Genetics
Source: Business Wire From: apnews.comrec Seattle Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) today announced completion of enrollment in the potentially pivotal innovaTV 204 ...
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CEL-SCI Reports Recent Data Review by the Independent Data Monitoring Committee for Its Pivotal Phase 3 Head and Neck Cancer Study
/ CEL-SCI Corporation, clinical trial, Clinical Trials, head and neck cancer, immunotherapy, Multikine, phase 3
Source: Business Wire From: apnews.com CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE American: CVM) announced today that the Independent Data Monitoring Committee (IDMC) for ...
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Let Life Happen Founder Barbara Jacoby

Barbara Jacoby is an award winning blogger that has contributed her two time Breast Cancer journey, patient advocacy mission and Domestic Abuse experience to multiple online publications that have touched readers worldwide. Her high quality, high content and high energy writings are delivered in a down to earth and humble style that everyone remembers.While becoming an ambassador for Survivors and Patient’s Rights, Jacoby has also shared her skills with the Walt Disney Company for 20 years. Read More

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