With the passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962) in the House of Representatives this past weekend, women with ovarian cancer and their families may be wondering how this bill will affect their health care coverage. Listed below are some major provisions of the bill. The House bill is not the final Health Reform bill.
Here are some basic strategies and resources that may make dealing with cancer easier.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/ovarian-cancer/DS00293/DSECTION=coping-and-support
University of Pennsylvania Health System, the School of Medicine, the Abramson Cancer Center, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology have made ovarian cancer a top research and clinical priority at PENN and have jointly invested significant resources to create the new Ovarian Cancer Research Center launched in July 2007 under the leadership of George Coukos, MD, PhD.
The Center’s goal is to identify new detection methods, develop new prevention approaches and therapies and improve the quality of life for women with ovarian cancer. http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/obgyn/research/ovarian.htmhe
A television interview with Sue Friedman Ex. Director of FORCE (Facing our Risk of Cancer Empowered) and Dr. Rebecca Sutphen, Ovarian Cancer Researcher at Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa; regarding the recent court ruling on the validity of the genetic patent for BRCA mutations.