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My wife has stage 4 metastatic cancer. She has battled this before and survived twice. This time the cancer has reached her brain and the doctors are a bit more apprehensive than before. Does anyone know about grants? All of her doctors are telling us to apply for grants to pay for her medicine. Any advice would be appreciated. I may not be able to respond right away, but I will do my best. Lots of planning and preparation on my part.

Just got back from the hospital,CT scan reveals I've got colon cancer and it's spread.I think I'm probably a dead man walking.

Asking for prayers for someone whom I have never met. One of my sons works with Jen, who recently learned that she has bone cancer in one leg and cancer in one of her lungs. Prayers requested also for this woman's husband Phil, a marine, and for her 2 small children.

We're taking Larry deer hunting this weekend. After 35 years in the woods with Larry, sadly, this will be our last together. After 40 years at the same job, he finally had enough and retired this past spring. He's a mere 62 years old. He left his job on a Friday and started his new job the next Monday. Working at a local golf course. Cutting grass, doing maintenance, free lunch everyday and free golf on Mondays. He was in heaven. About three months ago, his eyesight was suddenly failing him. The eye doctor said that there was something affecting...

Please pray for Redleghunter, who is recovering from surgery and now is waiting to talk further with his oncologist. Here is what happened, in his words: Via freepmail from Redleghunter: Up and about walking and leaping and praising God 24 hours after surgery. Ok not the leaping, I was told not to do that:) Initial scope of tissue is that it is cancerous. How involved unknown until pathology report. Location of small tumor is akin to standing in Grand central station and having access to over 17 train platforms. Meaning if not caught now would have “got on a train”...

The Florida teen whose dream came true when an NFL player escorted her to the prom has died, hospital officials announced Friday. Khameyea Jennings, 18, of Jacksonville, who was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2013, died Thursday, the Florida Times-Union reported, citing Wolfson Children’s Hospital spokesman Cindy Hamilton. Earlier this month, Jennings went to her prom with Jacksonville Jaguars defensive tackle Sen'Derrick Marks. The pair wore matching white and gold formalwear and drove to the Frank H. Peterson Academies of Technology prom in Marks’ Lamborghini. Marks, flowers in hand, had visited Jennings in April at Wolfson, where she was undergoing...

Paul Newman has finished chemotherapy and has told his family he wants to die at home... Yesterday, it was reported in America that Newman, 83, had only weeks to live and had returned home to his wife, Joanne Woodward...