SaludToday Gabriel, a part-time student with no insurance, is an acute myeloid leukemia survivor. But he hadn’t had any checkups for nearly three years. Then he found LIVESTRONG cancer services, which help the uninsured with accessing medical treatments and medical devices, finding assistance with insurance denials/appeals, handling debt and financial management issues related to a [...]
Never underestimate a Latina Mother and her intuition
By Diana Bejarano Latina Still Standing I know most mothers in general are usually very protective of their children – but there is something about a Latina mother and protecting her “ninos y ninas.” There is also something to be said about a mother’s intuition. That is what Jennie Flores did when her little girl [...]
We Come From a Lineage of Survivors — but to survive cancer we must be proactive
By Venessa Rivera Colon Habla News The stories I hear stay in my head. The woman who found breast cancer early on and is now a survivor living with her two beautiful children. My brother-in-law who was diagnosed with colon cancer in the later stages, we miss him dearly. The woman who despite her lack [...]
Latina Still Standing: Cancer picked the wrong Diva
By Diana Bejarano Latina Still Standing A Latina Still Standing survivor who beat the odds! For six months, while going through chemotherapy and radiation treatments, she woke up every day, rallied up the strength to go to work as the “Mid-Day Diva” disc jockey on Mega 104.3 local radio station. What some of her loyal [...]
Study: Latino Cancer Patients Suffer More Pain, Severe Sadness
SaludToday Latino patients reported significantly higher rates of pain, numbness, cognition difficulties, vomiting and severe sadness than non-Hispanics in a recent survey of 622 cancer patients awaiting appointments at three hospitals in the Bronx, New York City’s poorest borough, Internal Medicine News reports. About 45% of Hispanic patients reported moderate to severe pain, more than [...]
Spotlight Nonprofit: Teaching kids with cancer to kick away pain and fear through martial arts
LatinaLista — Cancer sucks! For anyone diagnosed with it, it’s a horrific, painful, scary thing to go through. Watching someone go through the treatments, especially loved ones, is hard but watching a child endure the pain and fear of the disease is heart-wrenching. Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg, or Rabbi G as he’s called, knew firsthand how [...]
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