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Questions and comments about financial struggles and successes while dealing with your diagnosis.

Be Your Own Best Advocate

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Hi Grace Readers,  I want to share a newly published post written by one of our board members, Nancy Sladicka.  It covers most of the most important basic tips and tricks needed to become your own advocate in cancer care. 

 

Maybe the most important reason to have this info is because medical oncologists, even those who specialize, can not keep up with fast moving changes in every facet of the care and treatment of their patients. 

 

I joined GRACE as a caregiver for my husband who had a Pancoast tumor, NSCLC stage III in 2009. He had curative chemo/rads then it was believed he had a recurrence in the spine/oligometastasis that was radiated. He's 10 years out from treatment.

How to Combat Financial Toxicity During Your Cancer Treatment - what do YOU think?

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Ketki Patel, a Patient Financial Advocate in Seattle recently offered suggestions and helpful information for financial navigation during your cancer journey.  If you haven't read the article, I highly recommend it!  It is full of great information.  You can read it here: https://cancergrace.org/post/how-combat-financial-toxicity-during-your-cancer-treatment.  
Operations Director for GRACE. Have worked with cancerGRACE.org since July 2009.  Became involved as a caregiver to my best friend, and quickly came to see that GRACE is filling a need in the area of cancer education. 
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