Cancer Awareness Months

• Prostate 3rd week in September
• Ovarian Cancer entire month of September
• National Minority Month 3rd week in April
• Leukemia Whole Month of September

The Uninsured: Voices of Despair

If you are having difficulty accessing quality health care contact The Patient Advocate Foundation (PAP) a national non-profit organization dedicated to the mission of creating avenues of patient access to evolving therapies, therapeutic agents and devices through the direct patient services offered by professionals case managers and healthcare attorneys, who mediate on behalf of patients to achieve resolution to issues that deny access to patients.
www.patientadvacate.org Email help@pateintadvocate.org

Physician's Data Query

PDQ is a computerized listing of up-to-date and accurate information for patient and health professionals that provide the latest types of cancer treatments, information on research studies, and listing of organizations and doctors involved in caring for people with cancer.
Phone 1.800 4 -cancer

Check back often! We will be adding new cancer information to the list to keep you up-dated.

Cancer Web Sites:

• National Cancer Institute - www.Cancer.gov
• Women Cancer Research Institute - www.csmc.edu/7199.html
• American Cancer Society - www.Cancer.org
• National Marrow Donor Program - www.Marrow.org
• Cancer - www.MedlinePlus.gov

Finanicial Assistance:

• AvonCare Program
  Relevant education and support to low income women
  
  
• www.cancer.org
  
  
• ONCOLINK- www.oncolink.org
  Information on specific types of cancer
  
  
• Roxane Home Labortories - Pain Institute
  www.roxane.com

Other Sites of Interest:

• Jericho Road Ministries - www.jerichoroadministries.org
  A non-profit social services organization for the spiritual development of the underprivileged and disenfran-chised population
• Acne Assasin - www.acneassasin.com

Indigent Patient Pharmaceutical Program
For unisured and underinsured patients who have limited financial resources.

Bayer Indigent - Patient Program
800.998.9180

Bristol- Meyers Squibb - Patient Program
1.800.332.2056 fax 609.897.6859

Genentech - Patient Program
1.800.879.2747

Janssen - Patient Program
1.800.544.2987

Lilly - Patient Program
1.800.545.6962

Merck - Patient Program
1.800.994.2111

Novartis- Patient program
1.800.257.3273