I recently met Susan Reid and discovered she is running for LLS Woman of the Year 2010 for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. This campaign she is competing in ends May 21st and raises money for blood cancer research in honor of local children who are blood cancer survivors.

ASK = Assistance, Support, Kindness. ASK is a non-profit organization that provides tremendous support to children with cancer and their families.

by Jack Bleeker, Guest Author

In recent years the role of alternative therapies in cancer care has transformed the way many patients cope with illness and related side of effects. An older paradigm suggested that cancer could only be effectively treated with traditional treatments like surgical resection, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. Many patients refused this notion and sought alternative therapies outside of their treatment regimen not were not only relaxing but eased side-effects associated with traditional treatment regimens, including those caused by chemotherapy drugs.