CancerCare has compiled these most promising findings in its new booklet, Your Guide to the Latest Cancer Research and Treatments: Highlights from ASCO 2011, available online now. You can also order your free copies from our publications page.

The term “oral mucositis” refers to mouth sores caused by irritation of the mucosa, soft tissues that cover the tongue and inside of the mouth. Our new booklet offers tips on controlling mouth pain and managing this side effect of some cancer treatments.

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Our new e-booklet, Advances in the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma, is now live on www.cancercare.org. The e-booklet describes the different treatment options for multiple myeloma, and offers tips on coping with the emotional and practical challenges of a multiple myeloma diagnosis.

Read the e-booklet.

Like all of CancerCare’s services, our publications are available to you completely free of charge. View all of CancerCare’s in-stock publications.

• The Importance of Taking Your Pills Everyday on Schedule offers tips on how patients can adhere to their doctor’s instructions and remember to take their pills.
• Colorectal Cancer: The Importance of Screening and Early Detection describes the screening tests that are available to detect and also prevent colorectal cancer.
• Coping with Peripheral T-cell Lymphoma (PTCL) offers helpful tips for managing the practical and emotional concerns people may have after being diagnosed with peripheral t-cell lymphoma (PTCL).
• Update on the Treatment of Liver Cancer details the different types of liver cancer, their treatment options, how to manage side effects, and the importance of communicating with your health care support team.
• Latest News in Blood Cancer Research presents the latest research in the treatment of leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma.

Three of these new publications are in Spanish:

• Lidiando con las nauseas y vomitos inducidos por la quimioterapia (Coping with Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting) (CINV)) offers tips for coping with nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy treatment.
• Mieloma multiple: Obtenga el maximo de sus citas medicas (Multiple Myeloma: Making the Most of Your Medical Appointments) explores ways to improve communication with your health care team.  
• Sobrellevando el mieloma multiple (Coping with Multiple Myeloma) offers tips for managing multiple myeloma so that patients can feel more in control of their diagnosis.  

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Coping with Multiple Myeloma offers tips for managing multiple myeloma so that patients can feel more in control of their diagnosis.

Multiple Myeloma: Finding Resources and Support provides information on local and national resources that are available for people coping with multiple myeloma.

Multiple Myeloma: Making the Most of Medical Appointments explores ways to improve communication with your health care team.

These fact sheets can be ordered free of charge from CancerCare’s online order form. Our newest Connect^® Booklet, Advances in the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma, is also available to order through the form.

Learn more about CancerCare’s resources for people coping with multiple myeloma, including our “Door to Door” program that provides individual grants of up to $600 annually to multiple myeloma patients for covering transportation costs such as gasoline, parking and tolls, and taxi, bus or train fare to and from their medical care.

Leading experts will present information from the conference and answer questions live during two upcoming CancerCare Connect Education Workshops:

•  Update on Lymphoma Treatment on December 15, 2010
•  The Latest Developments in Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML) on January 13, 2011

Register for a workshop.

Lean more about CancerCare’s free, professional support services for people affected by leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma.

ExploreBMT is a comprehensive, easy-to-search website that provides information about treatment options, financial assistance and insurance issues, and referrals to organizations that provide physical and emotional support from diagnosis to survivorship.

Visit www.explorebmt.org to learn more.

CancerCare offers free, professional support services for people affected by leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma.

Boston-based Millennium Pharmaceuticals, owned by the Japanese pharmaceutical, The Takeda Company, recently launched a website honoring the senbazuru tradition, where people facing cancer–patients, caregivers, loved ones–can express their hopes and wishes for the New Year. Each message of hope posted at the site is represented by a bird-shaped paper figurine.

 Millennium Pharmaceuticals is a funder of CancerCare’s Door to Door program, which provides financial assistance to cover transportation costs for people undergoing treatment for multiple myeloma.

Leave your wish at 1000 Cranes of Hope.com (the site is free but log-in registration is required). For every wish left at the site, Millennium will make a donation to a healthcare-related charity.

Are you (or someone you know) being treated for multiple myeloma? If so, you may qualify for a new financial assistance program from CancerCare that helps defray the cost of getting to and from your medical care appointments. Called “Door to Door,” the new program offers grants of up to $600 annually to multiple myeloma patients to cover transportation costs such as gasoline, tolls and parking, and taxi, bus and cab fare.

Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the bone marrow. About  20,000 people are diagnosed with this type of cancer each year in the U.S.  Advances in the treatment of this cancer have dramatically increased patients’ life expectancy–an estimated 60,000 people in the U.S. are now living with multiple myeloma–and consequently lengthened the duration of treatment, which often is given several times a week over many months.

Particularly for patients on a fixed income, these travel expenses add up and create a financial burden that may prevent them from keeping up with their health care, notes CancerCare Exeuctive Director Diane Blum. “The Door to Door program will provide much-needed relief to this patient population.”

For more information, call 800-813-HOPE (4673) or visit www.cancercare.org.