cancer drugs

All too often, older patients are given drugs and other therapies that have not been tested on people beyond a certain age

Breast cancer activist Barbara Brenner, who  died on May 10 at age 61 in San Francisco, refused to wear a pink ribbon. As she told a newspaper interviewer back in 1996, she already wore a symbol of her concern about the disease: a horizontal scar across her chest. But more important, she was…

Seniors face Medicare cost barrier for cancer. If rising health care costs weren't enough, Medicare patients like Rita Moore, below, who are fighting cancer are facing a new hurdle: high copays for the newest treatments.