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#53061 05-08-2006 07:02 AM | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 188 Likes: 1 Senior Member (100+ posts) |  Senior Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 188 Likes: 1 | D, Another source I came across is a Pharma website for the Partnership for Prescription Assistance. It is supposed to be a site where info from some 475 programs are all under one roof, and by filling out their questionare you can determine eligibility for assistance, and apply. The website is www.pparx.org Let me know if this is of any help. Chuck
SCC Stage IV right tonsil T3N3M0. Dx 08/03. Clinical Trial:8 weeks Taxol, Carboplatin then Hydrea, 5FU, IMRT x's 48, SND, Iressa x 2yrs. Now 20 years out and thriving. Dealing with a Prostate cancer diagnosis now. Add a Bladder cancer diagnosis to all the fun.
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"Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it."
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#53062 05-31-2006 02:21 PM | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 235 Gold Member (200+ posts) | | OP Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 235 | Cool, thanks for the info. My pursuit of any further assistance from Med Pt. D and Social Security has fallen on deaf ears. Although we have an appt. scheduled w/Medicaid, I'm not too hopeful. Because mom makes a tad bit more than the threshold of 14 some odd thousand dollars per year in SS benefits, she apparently doesn't qualify for additional help even though her out of pocket health care costs are running about 500/mo. I laugh in disgust at the system. I've met perfectly healthy people in their 20s who have figured out how to scam the system to the point that they get housing vouchers, food stamps and free med benefits, yet a 74 year old stage 4 cancer survivor who needs assistance is SOL. What a crazy world.
Mom's caregvr. DDS failed to dx 01/03. Dx Stg IV SCC 05/03. Induct. chemo, IMRT, 5FU, H, Iressa, Neck disect, radiation. Dad's caregvr. Dx 01/04 Ext. Stg SCLC. Mets to liver/bone 08/04. Died 11/12/04. Mom tongue CA dx 06/13, hemiglossectomy (80% removed) 08/13. Clean margins and nodes, but PNI. 6/15/15: Tongue CA at base of remnant tongue. Declined further tx; hospice.
Died 10/13/15. What a long and difficult journey.
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