Surviving Terminal Cancer or The Medicaid Planning Handbook

Surviving "Terminal" Cancer: Clinical Trials, Drug Cocktails and Other Treatments Your Oncologist Won't Tell You About

Author: Ben A Williams

Describes how to use the Internet and other sources to learn about experimental drug trials, effective forms of alternative medicine, and other breakthroughs with the potential for dramatically improving the odds of successful treatment.

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	1
I.	Round-Trip to Hades	5
Chapter 1	Diagnosis: Glioblastoma multiforme "The Terminator"	11
Chapter 2	Searching for Treatment	27
Chapter 3	Improving My Odds for Survival	45
Chapter 4	Salvaging a Life	63
Chapter 5	Toward a Rational Treatment Strategy	85
Chapter 6	Shared Experiences	95
II.	A System in Need of Reform	107
Chapter 7	Conventions of the Medical System and Their Ramifications	111
Chapter 8	Arbitrary Policies Exclude Promising Treatments	121
Chapter 9	Ethical Implications of the Clinical Trial System	135
Chapter 10	Phase-III Trials: Gold Standard or Fool's Gold?	145
Chapter 11	Bastille Day for Cancer Patients	161
III.	What Your Oncologist Won't Tell You	167
Chapter 12	Alternative Medicine	171
Chapter 13	The Value of Supplements	201
Chapter 14	The Cutting Edge of Cancer Treatment	233
Chapter 15	Sources of Information	257
	Index	261

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The Medicaid Planning Handbook: A Guide to Protecting Your Family's Assets from Catastrphic Nursing Home Costs

Author: Alexander A Bov

The federal Medicaid program covers long term care expenses for the elderly, but only when a family can no longer pay those expenses itself - only after its life savings have been wiped out and the family home has been sold. This fully revised and updated edition of The Medicaid Planning Handbook shows how to avoid financial ruin by planning in advance for your parents' and your own long term care. The Medicaid Planning Handbook reviews the current Medicaid rules; covers in great detail all the available options for protecting assets from devastating nursing home costs; and explains how to use devices such as revocable and irrevocable trusts, powers of attorney, and intrafamily transfers, with a special emphasis on ways to protect the home. Alexander A. Bove offers clear, concise advice for every situation - both those in which there are no immediate long term care problems and those in which one or both spouses are already in a nursing home.