Tagged: cancer

When Medical Bills Pile Up, Can You Crowdfund Your Health Care?

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When Mary Isham’s pancreatic cancer metastasized a year ago, she believed her only hope of survival was a cutting-edge radiation treatment offered in Europe. To help save Isham’s life, her friends turned to the Internet to get the financial support she desperately needed. When her rare form of the disease was diagnosed in 1999, Isham… Read More

Movie Actress Karen Black Crowdfunding On GoFundMe For Cancer Treatment

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You can help an award-winning actress in her fight with cancer. Karen Black — who is known for roles in such classic films as Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces — is hoping to raise money via crowdfunding in order to cover her cancer treatments, according to Deadline. Karen, 73, has been fighting ampullary cancer since 2010. Karen and her husband have launched… Read More

Revolution Three: Crowdfunding for Cancer Killing Virus

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As reported in the Guardian, Alexander Masters is aiding in a Crowdfunding Campaign against cancer. Several years ago Masters co-worker, Dido Davies was diagnosed with the “Steve Jobs Disease” or Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Cancer.  Incited to help in any way possible he searched for a possible treatment for his colleague.  Hitting the internet he stumbled across… Read More

From NIH Grants in Years, to Crowdfunded in Weeks.

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CureLauncher is crowdfunding new cancer treatments to accelerate development. The fiscal cliff is calling for funding to the National Institutes of Health to be cut by $2.5 billion and eliminate 2,100 research grants, including 300 through the National Cancer Institute, said the Biotechnology Industry Organization. Many life-saving cancer treatments will never reach people who need… Read More

DAILY OFFERING: Cloud-Based Quality Assurance for Cancer Treatment

Straight from the holy-crap-crowdfunding-can-help-solve-that files: Segasist has launched a campaign on MedStartr to try and bring quality assurance to cancer treatment. The product is called Reconcilio and it aims to take the guesswork out of targeting cancer cells.  Before a cancer patient begins radiation therapy, there is a step that takes place called “contouring.”  This is where… Read More